The Fractal Prince
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2014-01-21
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Retrieved
- Dec 1, 2014
- ISBN
- h2C8mwEACA
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Fractal Minds Inside Stories
I cover my ears when Tawaddud shouts the Name. By now I have a fairly good idea about how it works. Extreme fractal compression of some kind, a self-referential loop inside a story, forcing the target brain to iterate it all over again, bootstrapping a new mind inside it into existence. How it is possible, I do not…
Schrodinger's Cat as a Lock for a Box
Quantum mechanics claims that there is no definite cat in the box, only a ghost, a superposition of a live cat and a dead cat. That is, until we open it and look. A measurement will collapse the system into one state or the other. So goes Schrödinger’s thought experiment. It is completely wrong, of course. A cat is a…