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“The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.”

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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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.

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

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

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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…

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

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There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

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I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.

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