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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Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.Seth Lloyd
In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.
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This democratization of science, this making it public, is in a sense the realization of a promise that science has held for a long time.
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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 you like, processes that information.
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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 it is computationally capable.
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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.
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