Complex systems Quote by Seth Lloyd

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if…

— Seth Lloyd

“The significance of a bit depends not just on its value but on how that value affects other bits over time, as part of…

— Seth Lloyd

[With quantum computers] you can calculate how many bits are in the universe, how much energy it takes to flip them, how much energy…

— Seth Lloyd

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of…

— Seth Lloyd

Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

— Seth Lloyd

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is…

— Seth Lloyd

Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

— Seth Lloyd

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.

— Seth Lloyd

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

— Seth Lloyd

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

— Seth Lloyd

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that…

— Seth Lloyd

Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.

— Seth Lloyd