I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.
The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer. - Seth Lloyd
The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.
- Seth Lloyd
Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool device… - Seth Lloyd
Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool device…
Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial. - Seth Lloyd
Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.
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 availab… - 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 availab…
When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening… - Seth Lloyd
When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening…
Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction. - Seth Lloyd
Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.
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 … - 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 …
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics. - Seth Lloyd
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and pr… - Seth Lloyd
We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and pr…
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