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Given the amount of different seemingly unrelated terms in there:

  quantum factorization
  Hilbert & Fourier space
  tensor factorization of matrices
  Hilbert-Schmidt superoperators
  neural-network-based consciousness
  error-correcting codes
  condensed matter criticality
  Quantum Darwinism program
  ...

I have to ask just to be certain: This paper is the real deal, and not auto-generated, right?

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quantom factorization, hilbert spaces, fourier transforms and error correcting codes, all of these would be found in any quantum mechanics 101 course, definitely far from unrelated.

I'm not sure I agree with this, after skimming the paper. For instance, the author does not seem to be using terms like quantum factorization in the usual way (In the sense of a problem tackled by Shor's algorithm).

I've only glanced at the paper, but it looks to me as if he's using it in another perfectly usual way, namely referring to situations where the wavefunction and/or the Hilbert space it lives in can be written exactly or approximately as a product over simpler things. There's nothing wrong with that.

The author is one of the biggest names nowadays in cosmology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Tegmark

I felt that if the science hipster existed, thats what she would write. Disclaimer: I'm in no position to judge any of this.

Hah! I read that abstract and thought, ok this reads like it was auto-generated. I'm withholding judgement until I've got time later to give it some additional reading.

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