"One of the things that I've been doing……" — Seth Lloyd
"One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?"
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31 Quotes by Seth Lloyd
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- Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
- Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
- According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter,…
- Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.
- At some point, Moore's law will break down.
- All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will…
- Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms…
- I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the…
- I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal…
- If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the…
- If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe…
- In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and…