Quantum Reality

Maybe you’ve heard of quantum computing. Maybe you know it has to do with being able to process exponentially faster than current binary digital systems. It has to do with giving a computer the ability to do multiple tasks at once on the same data at the same time. It’s not multiple processors and hyperthreading; it’s multiple threads in the same operation at the same time on the same single processor, so to speak.

Honestly, I’m not an alien and I didn’t discover some alien intelligence, but that’s how my head works. When you look around you, virtually everyone will tend to reason in binary mode, a linear form of reasoning. A single idea has to process one step at a time and it can’t leave the thread until a decision is made. A thing can’t be yes and no at the same time. That’s a basic feature of Western Civilization. We don’t do parallel logic.

What most people don’t understand is that binary thinking is actually an innovation, a new form of philosophy dreamed up by the Greeks. Previous civilizations were not less intelligent and didn’t lack for wise and deeply reasoning philosophers, but they didn’t accept the limitations imposed by the likes of Aristotle. You’d be hard put to find it in more ancient literature, ANE philosophers were aware of binary thinking. It was pretty much what you got from poorly educated peasants, but those with an education didn’t suffer that so much. They might call someone on a false dichotomy, which is about as much proof as I can offer. However, there is a sense in which quantum reasoning was the norm until the Greeks came along. That is, parallel competing concepts and paradox were not confusing to other civilizations.

The future of computing is not some chaotic state of fuzzy logic, but simply not restricted to binary logic. Quantum computing means controlling and using these alternative states to amplify the process. The same goes with non-linear reasoning. It’s not chaotic and random; it’s quite orderly, but a system of order confusing to almost every Westerner. I’m quite comfortable with it, myself.

In the Hebrew intellectual background, someone like Solomon could look upon a particular situation in society. He could see how it would be wise for one fellow to aim at one thing, while for his brother wisdom means a competing aim. At the same time, he might realize both were wrong in different ways. He had no trouble realizing something could be good and bad at the same time, even on the same level. Sometimes competition is about the only right path for humans in their own contexts. There doesn’t have to be one right answer, and Solomon could have seen that all at once.

I’ve over-simplified, of course. The grasp of a divine moral principle does not necessarily end in neat and tidy answers for everyone at once. Reality itself is of the quantum flavor, not the binary. That’s why quantum computing will work, and it’s why Western Civilization will corrode from the inside. The West is hard wired in binary, and can’t adapt to running quantum logic. So as more and more people start to think along quantum reality lines, they’ll have to leave the West behind. It will be scrapped like today’s binary computers will be once quantum hardware becomes easily available.