June 06, 2014 at 05:35PM
"There is one crushing issue that will be the hardest to swallow for engineers: that is the many worlds problem." #readingToday

_There is one crushing issue that will be the hardest to swallow for engineers: that is the many worlds problem . The most worrying uncertainty is the one that tells us we cannot know more . Ultimately, engineers simply have to give up the notion of low level determinism . We can draw inspiration from the physics of path integrals to help here. Finding an average meaning through a path-specific network of digital transitions, is almost like computing quantum mechanical path integrals. Instead of trying to lock down unique deterministic trajectories, we can do the opposite: allow them to go anywhere and say anything, mean anything, and then present the optimum paths that satisfy the constraints. _

In Search of Certainty, Mark Burgess, 2013