Seth Lloyd quotes - page 2

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. (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 a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. View quote
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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 a research program. View quote
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Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information. View quote
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Something else has happened with computers. View quote
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We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control. View quote
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Seth Lloyd

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Photo: Dmitry Rozhkov, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Educator
Born: August 2, 1960
Quotes count: 31
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