Comment by goatlover
14 days ago
Turing machines are deterministic. Quantum Mechanics is not, unless you go with a deterministic interpretation, like Many Worlds. But even then, you won't be able to compute all the branches of the universal wave equation. My guess is any deterministic interpretation of QM will have a computational bullet to bite.
As such, it doesn't look like reality can be fully simulated by a Turing machine.
Quantum mechanics and quantum computers are not interchangeable terms.
QM is a derived rule set, QC is a result of assembling a physical system that exploits QM rules.
aside from that, a Quantum scale assemblage [QC] is a lot closer to biological secret sauce than semiconductor gates.