"Quantum information processing cannot be openly performed in spacetime with classical matter...So where does quantum computation take place? This question has puzzled physicists since the inception of this technology, but there is still no adequate answer." #QuantumComputing #OhThatsNotRight

Still in Ch. 5, in only a few pages we have gone through "live information", the origin of human language, and end with a few paragraphs on #QuantumComputers that are, um, yeah, #OhThatsNotRight.

I am sacrificing brain cells and precious minutes of my remaining life to bring you this. I hope somebody's getting something out of it. #hateRead #OhThatsNotRight

Okay, Chapter 5, where he introduces "live information", is an absolute train wreck. I'm sure no living (!) biologist could get through it without serious damage to either their own brain or whatever object is in the book's flight path. #OhThatsNotRight

Ch. 4 starts out with Shannon's information theory, then winds up with just the bald assertion that humans "understand" what a symbol means, whereas a computer just transforms it into another symbol. No theory yet of what it means for a human to understand. Maybe in Ch. 5? #OhThatsNotRight

Mostly, it's not wrong, just not enlightening. But when he describes the hydrogen atom as something that arises out of entanglement between an electron and a proton, the collective heads of many physicists will hit their collective desks. #OhThatsNotRight

"Quantum physics is already telling us that the universe is holistic and creative," um, no, I don't think it's telling us that. But yes, with his talk of The One, we are solidly in #panpsychism territory here. #OhThatsNotRight.