Robert J. Sawyer Quote

All right, he said. Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on a stable null-sigma condensate that resists decoherence thanks to constructive feedback loops. He turned to the blackboard, scooped up a piece of chalk, and began writing rapidly. See, he said, using Dirac notation, if we let Webmind’s default conscious state be represented by a bra of phi and a ket of psi, then this would be the einselected basis. His chalk flew across the board again. Now, we can get the vector basis of the total combined Webmind alpha-state consciousness...

Robert J. Sawyer

All right, he said. Since you asked, Webmind is an emergent quantum-computational system based on a stable null-sigma condensate that resists decoherence thanks to constructive feedback loops. He turned to the blackboard, scooped up a piece of chalk, and began writing rapidly. See, he said, using Dirac notation, if we let Webmind’s default conscious state be represented by a bra of phi and a ket of psi, then this would be the einselected basis. His chalk flew across the board again. Now, we can get the vector basis of the total combined Webmind alpha-state consciousness...

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About Robert J. Sawyer

Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian and American science fiction writer. He has had 24 novels published and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and numerous anthologies. He has won many writing awards, including the best-novel Nebula Award (1995), the best-novel Hugo Award (2003), the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2006), the Robert A. Heinlein Award (2017), and more Aurora Awards than anyone else in history.
Sawyer was born in Ottawa. He has lived in the Greater Toronto Area for most of his life and has been a resident of Mississauga since 2000.