(C)1996 Lee Kent Hempfling All Rights Reserved Abstract: How would a person with a knowledge base of binary boolean operations best imagine the Quantum Computer's operating system? It is fairly understood that a person's long established and regularly supported concepts of a procedure will determine the perspective by which that person will observe that procedure. Of course the point to remember is that when a person is only aware of a certain level the goal of exceeding that level will never be met unless the possibilities of it are known. So when an alternative is presented for the same procedural outcome it will be evaluated by the known knowledge base. Which will result in a non understanding or comprehension of the presented replacement based upon it's not comparing to the known and accepted knowledge base. This paper will, through the use of a rather unusual method, depict a process whereby one knowledge base can be used to examine and understand the other without the benefit of already comparing. The point is the new and totally different quantum computing protocol. The SCENE: A warm sunny day somewhere in the world where the sight of cameras and microphones is not considered an event. Announcer: Welcome to the 1st annual Marching Band Parade brought to you by IBM, what you get after IBM and APPLE merge. And by Fixochip. Where used computers get another chance. Today's color coverage is hosted by Brent Spiner, known for his role as Data on Star Trek, The Next Generation. With his co-host and laugh track, the highly intelligent, yet totally logical retired host of the mysterious, the loveable alien,... Mr. Spock. SPINER: Thank you, Don Pardo. Yes that's right we're here for the 1st EVER Parade of Protocols. Spock? SPOCK: The linear examination of orchestral diligence from various and sundry methods of computation procedures.</P> SPINER: Ah,....Yes. Right. Well.......Let's see.... ah, yes, here they come and in the lead today representing the primary sponsor of our event is the award winning IBM Corporate Digital marching band. As they approach you'll notice the lovely corporate uniform. The immaculate grey tie with grey suit and white shirt. SPOCK: Watching the careful planning and effort that has gone into this obviously tiring and strenuous collection of inter-related yet amazingly similar clones of the big blue image it takes me to the recollection of the morgifnites of Friday9. That clueless but logical attempt at teleportational head nodding and the city of a million stories. SPINER: It does? OK. According to the prepared material from the IBM Digital Marching Band Office of Information: The Digital Marching Band will be the slowest marching band of the parade. But the most efficient. You will notice that the band moves very slowly and plays a note, then moves and does not play a note. SPOCK: This is not logical Data. SPINER: Brent! Please, Spock. The show's been canceled. But it is logical. We will see the evolution of the digital band concept when we see the Pentium Marching Band Ensemble later in the show. The Digital Band is playing a fine composition written by chief band programmer Alex Throwback. The composition is a full layered, multi task, spreadsheet creation with graphic depictions of charts and graphs. SPOCK: But Data the band makes noise. This is not music. It has no pitch. All the band can do is play or not play. SPINER: Yes, Spock. That's right. The band's motto is To play Or Not TO Play. That is digital. SPOCK: That does not compute. SPINER: It is a bit unnerving. I mean there are some instruments playing when other's aren't and there are only two notes in the entire composition. We will have to wait for the Pentium Ensemble to see the blending of that protocol. SPOCK: Oh, look. Data. It's the entry from the MIT Neural Network Laboratory. SPINER: Yes, Spock. It's the Darwinian Neural Network Band. Today they are playing Mary Had A Little Lamb and Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Of course we can only hear the nursery rhyme right now. According to their press release the band intends to evolve into Beethoven's 9th before the end of the parade. SPOCK: That is not logical Data. There is nothing similar in them. They are not even in the same musical key. Not the same time. Not the same beat. Not the same at all. SPINER: That is right Spock. But as you can see there are some instruments that are going off on their own. It is beginning to sound rather off key. But it is presented here in their documentation that such is the way of the Evolution of the brain. SPOCK: But that does not compute, Data. The brain evolved from lower forms of brains into what it is today. My brain is no different than your.....well maybe it is. My brain is no different than the normal HUMAN brain I just have big ears. But Mary had a little lamb was the result of a brain. Symphony #9 was the result of a brain. The brain of Beethoven was not different from the brain of the man who wrote the Mary song. Only the outcome was different. Don't you understand the difference between the output of a machine and the machine itself? SPINER: Well I..... SPOCK: In my time we gave up on that evolutionary approach to neural networks after the release of the book..."Plasticity in a Concrete World". It showed us all that the brain's plasticity is on two levels. One is the result of it's computations. The other is the self repair ability of the neural connections. We've known for many centuries that the brain does not rewire itself to make better connections. It compares previous results from a concrete design to make new results that appear plastic. SPINER: Well, this is the MIT entry. SPOCK: That is logical. SPINER: Coming down the parade route now is the glorious entry from The University. Of Tokyo. The Tokyo Fuzzy Band. SPOCK: Sounds like a collection of slide whistles. SPINER: That you are. Spock. You will notice the fine precision of the instruments as they slide from one extreme of the volume of off to the other extreme of the volume of on. SPOCK: But it sounds like they're only tuning up. SPINER: Oh no. You see, according to the press release here, the fuzzy band will slide from one extreme to the other until they agree on a middle value of mostly on and mostly off that will join the entire ensemble in a single note of agreement. SPOCK: But they seem to be doing it by the same if-then possibilities the IBM band used. The only difference is they seem to be doing a lot more of them so as they march down the parade route they seem to get closer and closer to a single agreeable note. SPINER: That is if you happen to like a band that spends 100 steps to get to middle C. I do hear something faint and wonderful though in the background. SPOCK: So do I. And I know what that is. It can only be the Neutronics Quantum Marching Orchestra. That is the system my time uses for almost everything. SPINER: But first here come the NCUBE Parallel Bands. A collection of 450 different groups of instruments each performing a separate task all at the same time. Some are clarinets. Some bugles. Some flugelhorns. But all are playing the same song the IBM band did. SPOCK: That is not logical Data. It is just a bigger IBM Band. SPINER: Louder too. The nice part about the IBM band was the ability to catch your breath when they were silent. With the NCube entry I can't think. The noise just never stops. SPOCK: When will the Neutronics Quantum Band get here? SPINER: Soon I hope. But first here comes the first of Intel's entries. The 286 Marching Ensemble playing a rather Basic program of IBM style on-off tones but the speed of the players is such that the off-on feeling is not quite as hard to put up with. They seem to be each jumping in and out of playing their assigned notes. Ah.... yes..... now I can make it out. The group is attempting to duplicate the music of the great master. Louis Armstrong. SPOCK: That is not logical data. Each instrument blows one note. Then awaits the other instruments to blow their notes and then blows another one. Sure the effect is a single melody but the pattern is jerky and sounds awful. SPINER: According to Intel's literature right here on my lap it says that with the advent of the faster bands yet to come we will see how this rather cumbersome protocol results in a serious attempt to duplicate music. SPOCK: But the only reason it does is because the human ear can not differentiate between different sounds that quickly. So they seem to blend together. But to me.... Vulcan ears are able to pick up sounds must faster than humans and I won't fall for that faster speed theory. The fuzzy group came the closest to making my ears think it was listening to a sweet sine wave of music. But this digital protocol. In fact. I know that some people I've met can not stand to listen to CD music. The cymbals seem too harsh as they NEED the sine wave of flowing sound to bridge between the harshness of high frequencies. True audiophiles they are. SPINER: Yes I have noticed the mix of a CD is different now than it was when it was first used for music recording. The high frequencies are slightly less in volume then they were. SPOCK: Exactly. SPINER: I've just been handed a note that it seems Intel has pulled their 386 and 486 entries and Apple has been pulled from the parade altogether. They laid off the band members. It seems that with the new P6 introduced Intel wants to highlight what they are making. So here they are. The Intel P6 Marching Pentium Band. SPOCK: Fast indeed they are. Look at those fingers fly over those keys. But it can't fool me. Each instrument is still just playing faster and faster while dropping in a note here and there. SPINER: But you must admit Spock. The music is grand. SPOCK: There's nothing wrong with the music data. It's the execution that bothers me. Haven't they heard of timbre? Of tone? Of texture? Of harmonic overtones? SPINER: I hear it better now. The Quantum Band of those Neutronics People is getting closer. But first the second to last entry of the parade. This one is from a new sponsor of our parade. The Fixochip people. It's the latest in quantum computing. As they say here in their press release the quantum band from Fixochip is a light emitting orchestra of quanta spins. With some instruments spinning left and some spinning right. It sure is a bright and blistering display but it isn't making any music. SPOCK: That's right, Data. No music. But if it weren't for the photon band this would have to have started earlier in the day as the band gives us the light we need to see into sunset. Of course we could see better if it weren't for the portable power plant trailing behind the band and all that smoke. Not to mention the heat. SPINER: Well here it comes Spock. I'll let you introduce this one. SPOCK: Thank you , Data. This is the final entry in the computer revolution in this pageant of computational protocol. The Neutronics Quantum Computation Orchestra. You will notice the fluid movement of the music. The bright and full sound of the ensemble. The instruments in the lead each offering a slow and melodic synchronous pattern in a low frequency while the second group of instruments is faster and more staccato in a higher frequency. And finally the third set of instruments in an even higher frequency that top off the presentation with reason and feedback and control. You will notice where the digital band instruments each blew a note then waited for the next sequence to blow another one this quantum band is blowing continuous tones that change with the input of the first row of instruments. As the level of computation gets higher the notes get smaller but the process of sine wave music continues so it reaches the full and encompassing orchestral presentation we hear today. Since the first row of this band is a row of hearing receptors the band is playing a composition being written right hear as we listen. The band's leader, walking out in front is presenting the first row with a series of sounds from a small tape recording device that are being picked up by the first row and processed on down the line. With each step the band moves forward like they were swimming or riding on a wave of frequencies. SPINER: Spock. I hear a distinct single tone. What is that? SPOCK: Ah, yes.....data. The tone you are hearing is the undertone of the frequencies working their way through the band. If you listen carefully you can hear about two others as well. Low tones they are. But the entire process is also a result of the computational protocol of true quantum computing. So that outcome will be a mixture of all of the synchronous firing patterns. That culmination is what you are hearing. I bet you could measure those tones with an EEG machine too. In fact if your ears were as good as mine you could hear the overtones as well. Way up there. Far beyond the simple single clock frequency provided by that small hip pocket battery powered clock on the hip of the band leader. SPINER: Well, there they are folks. The Protocol Parade in review. For some reason I am beginning to agree with Spock. It seems that after the Neutronics Quantum Orchestra gets a chance to be heard it will replace all the others. SPOCK: In my time it has. SPINER: Well, thank you Spock. And thank you listeners for following this parade right along with us. Until next year when we're likely to present far fewer remaining protocols this is Brent Spiner: SPOCK: And this is Mr. Spock. Wishing you a sine wave experience like your head is used to.
