Quantum Mechanics and the Universal Supercomputer

20th Century science was consumed with this idea that the universe was destined to fall apart, driven on to this inevitability by the second law of thermodynamics, that of entropy.

The concept is simple enough; systems will always fall, overall, to lower energy states over time. Again, we won’t get bogged down on the science of it. Let’s just look at what it means to what we’ve been talking about.

On a cosmic scale, this means that stars will eventually die and cool, matter will become more distributed and fall apart until nothing is left but the dying gasps of our universe, a lightless sea of black holes that in time will even die.

Looking at the universe from a purely physical viewpoint, this means that the universe becomes somehow “less” and simpler over time. However, this was turned on its head in the late 20th Century by quantum physicists who proposed a new way of looking at the universe – visualizing it as a great, cosmic computer. Birnbaum actually began working on the groundwork of this idea in his first book, Summa Metaphysica I (1998) and went on to develop the concept further in Summa Metaphysica II (2005).

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Following Birnbaum’s publishing of Summa Metaphysica II, Seth Lloyd, a widely respected quantum physicist of MIT, put forward that the entire universe is one great supercomputer. Instead of seeing entropy as a breaking down of the universe, he sees it in terms of information. That very entropy is creating more and more information throughout the universe as a whole. To visualize this, think of the universe as both a computer and a huge hard drive to store information.

Regarding this view, Birnbaum agrees, personally calling the universe “a quantum computer integrated into an Organic overlay.” Birnbaum both agrees with Lloyd and takes his work many steps further. This is due to the influence of Potentialism itself.

Simply put, Q4P has a job to do. In seeking E+, it necessarily must strive towards that end-goal and what better way than to intelligently continue to compute the nature of E+ itself. Now, in fairness, we must be careful when using the term intelligence.

Per Birnbaum, “The universe does not have consciousness as we know it; however, [it] voraciously gobbles up and processes all data -which it then deploys to advance its (Potential-driven) objectives and designs. ” Thus, the universe is a purpose-built computer designed specifically to calculate, strive for, and understand its own Extraordinariation.

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