(IJCH) Who Controls Your Personal Hadamard Gate? - An Easy To Understand Discussion About Quantum Physics, Philosophy And Human Experience; Namely: The Consequences of Conscious Choice vs. Living By Default

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Salutations. I am JaiChai. And if I haven't had the pleasure to make your acquaintance, it's always nice to meet a fellow Steemian.

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As the title suggests, this article is not targeted to quantum physicists or PhD's in philosophy but towards every thinking individual.

I will neither bore you, nor overwhelm you with any hard to understand scientific concepts or mathematical theorems.

If necessary, I will provide - mostly in my own words - the simplest definition or explanation that I possibly can come up with in regards to quantum theory; but primarily as it relates to our main topic.

As usual, brazenly and without remorse, I have included a couple tidbit "semi-tangents" (in italics) simply because, in my humble opinion, they are intriguing facts to know.

Also, related websites and video URL links are the green colored hyperlinks typed in italics.

The end goal of this article is to enable you to confidently answer this question:

"Who Controls Your Personal Hadamard Gate?"

The Quantum State

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Before we define what a Hadamard Gate is, it is important to first understand what is meant by the term the "quantum state".

The quantum state is the state before quantum particles pop into and out of discrete points of space and time.

In this quantum state resides ALL possibilities, ALL potentialities of something becoming this or that, and ALL the ways a situation may turn out or possible outcomes from any given point of departure. In short, the quantum state is "the everything" that "something" comes out of.

BTW, quantum theory states (and is mathematically proven) that everything already exists.

This means that the experience of our life states (locale, socioeconomic status, health, age and even gender - much like quantum particles) can be this, that, or anything in between.

And it [manifestations of experiential state] could be anything, something or nothing - existing nowhere, and yet existing everywhere".

But that's a topic for another discussion.

So, let's move on to the Hadamard Gate.

What Is A Hadamard Gate?

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The Hadamard Gate:

In quantum computing and specifically the quantum circuit model of computation, a quantum gate (or quantum logic gate) is a basic quantum circuit operating on a small number of qbits.

They are the building blocks of quantum circuits, like classical logic gates are for conventional digital circuits.

Unlike many classical logic gates, quantum logic gates are reversible.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gate)

Basically, the Hadamard Gate brings things out of and into the quantum state; meaning: Out of ALL possibilities, the Hadamard Gate only allows one to be observed mathematically (or manifested in our reality).

Think.

Think hard.

With regard to Humanity and Consciousness, this a BIG DEAL.

It is Your Personal Hadamard Gate that allows only one thought, out of all the things in the universe you could ever think about in this lifetime, to enter your mind and become the predominant mindset, the focus of your attention.

Thoughts About Thoughts

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From the musings of the great philosophers to the study of quantum mechanics, the question of reality, life, and how our thoughts affect our experience and the environment has/is the crux of Humanity's exploration, the irresistible impetus that drives us to continue investigating, testing and evaluating.

Modern science is just now confirming the validity of many ancient concepts about thought and its affect on external circumstances.

These ideas can be found extensively throughout ancient texts, documented by the scribes of ancient civilizations from thousands of years ago.

Those ideas have been preserved mainly via religious ceremonies, rituals, and foundational belief's in almost all of the ancient Asian religions.

You can still observe their major influence in today's so-called "primitive" cultures.

Everything Is Ultimately Energy

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Everything is alive with energy - even the space that was once believed to be empty.

Quantum physics has proved that everything is filled with quantum particles that constantly shift from particle to wave and back again.

The old notions of our bodies, objects, stars and the universe being comprised of 99.9% empty space has been effectively debunked.

Quantum physicists have conducted countless experiments proving that everything, including the space in a vacuum is brimming with energy - quantum particles that pop into and out of discrete points of space and time, but actually exist in all places (as potentialities, as infinite possibilities).

(https://steemit.com/philosophy/@jaichai/ijch-a-happy-pocket-full-of-sbd-personal-development-series-2-the-single-best-way-to-compete-is-not-to)

As the famous "Schrödinger's Cat" thought experiment explains, the mere act of observing them [quantum particles] can actually influence how they will manifest and behave.

See:

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat)

In fact, the whole range of potentialities of a quantum state collapses to a single point upon observation.

This is evidence of how powerful we as thinking individuals really are and how significant the choices that we make (or accept by default by not choosing) become in our experiential existence.

Simply stated, our choice on what to focus on directly influences what does or doesn't manifest in our realities.

Here's a great video that my friend @vimukthi recently introduced to me that explains this "spontaneous creation" phenomena:

One further example of how our thoughts can influence our environment are the acclaimed experiments by Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto:

Masaru Emoto (江本 勝 Emoto Masaru, July 22, 1943 – October 17, 2014) was a Japanese author, researcher, photographer and entrepreneur, who claimed that human consciousness has an effect on the molecular structure of water.

Emoto's conjecture evolved over the years, and his early work explored his belief that water could react to positive thoughts and words, and that polluted water could be cleaned through prayer and positive visualization.

Since 1999, Emoto published several volumes of a work entitled Messages from Water, which contain photographs of ice crystals and their accompanying experiments.

Emoto's ideas appeared in the movies Kamen Rider: The First and What the Bleep Do We Know!?.

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru_Emoto)

Thought - A Living Entity

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“Thoughts are Things.”

Only a few years ago an expression of this kind would have caused the significant lifting of eyebrows, and the equally significant wagging of heads—it would have given rise to the suspicion of extreme “queerness.”

But today, surrounded as it is, with equally wonderful statements regarding the natural phenomena of life and the universe, it is accepted at least as possible and quite in keeping with other scientific ideas, by those who keep abreast of the advanced thought of the day.

Download this wonderful exposition of why "Thoughts are Things" by Prentice Mulford (.pdf format) here:

(https://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.yogebooks.com/english/atkinson/1909thoughtsthings.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiTsamoi-rYAhUY6bwKHdthBgMQFjABegQIERAB&usg=AOvVaw30L6W29Xg5zuxYKdHUPLwb)

Given that thoughts are living entities, it's wise to remember this:

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(https://steemit.com/philosophy/@jaichai/ijch-something-to-ponder-conditional)

The Time Is Always "Now" - And Your Role In It

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Your time and my time is always "now".

The past is just a "now" we are remembering.

The future is just a "now" we are envisioning.

These are marvelous capabilities of the human mind.

In fact, with enough concentration and feeling, the mind can enable a person to physiologically relive a past "now" or a future "now"; complete with all forms of stimuli (e.g., visual, proprioceptor, auditory, olfactory, etc.).

It should also be noted that electrical stimuli can produce the same effects.

This begs the question whether we are actually very sophisticated, semi-sentient simulations created by an infinite series of prior simulations.

Again, another topic to discuss in the future.

In this linear, human life, your thoughts predate your experiential "now" by a mere fraction of a millisecond.

Your thoughts are the origin of your actions and subsequently, your actions cause your future "now"; and therefore, your thoughts are THE FIRST, MOST IMPORTANT causitive entity in your life.

Again, think hard.

Your thoughts are the progenitors of your behavior; hence, your experiential existence depends on them.

Whatever you're thinking "now" dictates your experience from this point forward.

The beautiful thing about all of this is that it's not dependent on anything external. It's totally an internal endeavor and with practice, under each person's complete control.

You Go Where You're Looking; You Look Where You're Thinking - The Power Of Choosing Your Thoughts

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While he was a prisoner in a Nazi Death Camp, Dr. Victor Frankl (author of the excellent book "Man's Search For Meaning" - and many more highly acclaimed books), noticed that the only commonality between survivors and non-survivors was that the survivors consciously chose their thoughts.

In short, they survived.

They had to.

Why?

Because in their minds, they were destined for greater, more fulfilling things.

They forced themselves to keep thinking about their life's purpose; about what they still were meant to do and why they needed to continue living.

Each person's purpose was different.

The purpose could have been a loved one they had been separated from and wanted to see again; if only for one last time.

Or it could've been a personal goal, academic or professional achievement that they believed they could accomplish and desperately wanted to attain.

The point is this:

In spite of all the death and dying around them, these people survived the Nazi Death Camps when millions of others perished because they took consious control of their thoughts.

In other words, they kept a constant, vivid vision of the "who, what and where they ultimately were meant to be" in their minds 24/7.

Consequently, their actions "followed where their eyes were looking" - which was predicated by the thoughts they held in their mind.

And in spite of the horrendous conditions, their thoughts produced both internal physiological changes and external, observable actions to make sure they went "where their minds were thinking".

The act of consiously choosing their thoughts literally saved their lives.

Being An Observer And Participant in your Life

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Thinking about your own thoughts is hard.

It forces one to face themselves and realize that maybe they don't particularly like what they see. In fact, it can be so distasteful (and feared) that almost everyone will do anything to avoid it.

It's much easier to succumb to all the mind-numbing distractions around us. For example, it's nothing to flip on the television, get lost in a computer game, or spend countless hours chatting online.

And it doesn't take very long to get habituated and never even question why they're unknowingly giving that all-important choice of what to spend their precious attention on to other entities.

But the skill of being both an observer AND participant in your life is essential to making more conscious choices.

Otherwise, a person's path in life is determined by other people's choices.

"If you don't have the wherewithal to make conscious choices, you are dooming yourself to a life 'By Default'. Consequently, you cannot sit at that crucial, life-determining decision table; and therefore, you must accept crumbs from the table - meaning: You ony get the leftovers, whatever is left after everyone else has chosen." - JaiChai

In other words, you must build your conscious choice skills, or live by default.

It's either discipline your thoughts or by default accept your fate; a fate that's filled with regret and anxiety.

Think of this:

The biggest reason why people lament spending time and effort on something that yields absolutely nothing - totally fruitless - is because they don't consciously choose what to pay attention to.

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(https://steemit.com/philosophy/@jaichai/ijch-something-to-ponder-these-three-simple-but-profound-questions-will-save-a-lot-of-our-precious-time)

Conclusion: "Who Controls Your Personal Hadamard Gate?"

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Never forget that a Hadamard Gate is not a one-way gate.

Unlike many classical logic gates, quantum logic gates are reversible.

That means that you are not doomed to living by default.

Yes, Hadarmard Gates do take all the possibilities from a quantum state, collapse it into one thing and bring it into your reality; but they can easily go the other way and take it from "now" and move it back into the pile of potentialities.

The choice can be yours or not.

In closing, I ask you again:

Now that you know the power of thought, its effects on your experiential existence, and that you have the innate ability to consciously choose your thoughts, your mind's focus (the things you attend to that inevitably manifest your reality)...

"Who Controls Your Personal Hadamard Gate?"

By JaiChai

Thanks for stopping by.

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About the Author

He is a retired U.S. Military veteran. Believing that school was too boring, he dropped out of High School early; only to earn an AA, BS and MBA in less than 4 years much later in life – while working full-time as a Navy/Marine Corps Medic.

In spite of a fear of heights and deep water, he freefall parachuted out of airplanes and performed diving ops in very deep, open ocean water.

He spends his days on an island paradise with his teenage daughter, longtime girlfriend and three dogs.

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