Vladimir_Nesov comments on Dissolving the Question - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 04 January 2012 07:07:15PM *  0 points [-]

That said, even full knowledge of the state of a given brain would not allow you to predict it's output in advance, as even in isolation, that brain would divide into a very large number of possible states every instant, and QM proves that there is no way of determining, in advance, which state that brain will arrive at at any given time.

This is not a problem. A computer runs a program the same way in almost all future outcomes, weighed by probability. QM shows how to determine what happens even in cases where it's not as simple as that.