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Seth Lloyd
American
Educator
Amount
Being
Information
Time
Universe
You
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Something else has happened with computers.
Seth Lloyd
Else
Something
Something Else
Computers
Happened
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.
Seth Lloyd
Time
System
Evolving
Physical
Merely
Existing
Any
Information
Processes
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.
Seth Lloyd
Life
Death
Law
Nothing
Except
Taxes
Certain
Thermodynamics
Second
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.
Seth Lloyd
Society
Significant
Computers
Devices
Huge
Huge Amounts
Human
Human Beings
Happened
Information
Process
Which
Register
Themselves
Created
Beings
Species
Amount
Fraction
Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.
Seth Lloyd
Memory
Matter
Space
Energy
Indeed
Must
Above
Take
Advantage
Calculation
Ultimate
Available
Turn
Full
Full Advantage
Laptop
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.
Seth Lloyd
You
Speak
Language
Atoms
Circumstances
Out
Compute
Make
Learn
Understand
How
Normal
Normal Circumstances
Order
Information
Process
Process Information
Figure
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.
Seth Lloyd
Time
You
Every
Changes
System
Evolving
Physical
Like
Doing
Just
Information
Processes
Thing
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.
Seth Lloyd
You
Better
Build
Universe
Everything
Potentially
Could
Computer
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Than
Wanted
Available
Including
All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
Seth Lloyd
Will
Thought
Define
Consists
Systems
Physical
Determine
Computation
Wishes
How
Information
Processing
Registering
View
Your
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?
Seth Lloyd
Digital
Research
Universe
One Of The Things
Computation
Performing
Like
Scientific
Scientific Research
Doing
Been
Question
Capable
Ask
Actually
Things
Recently
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.
Seth Lloyd
Try
Look
Also
Scientific
Prove
Model
Dynamics
Capable
Standard
Reasonable
Program
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.
Seth Lloyd
Universe
Complex
Would
Computational
Investigate
Merely
Also
Scientific
Metaphor
Explanation
Capacity
Reasonable
Why
Here
Suggest
Basis
Program
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
Matter
Fluctuation
Our
Slightly
Collapsing
Some
Perhaps
Around
Quantum
Caused
Years
Years Ago
According
Density
Model
Sitting
Maybe
Where
Little
Galaxy
Lower
Standard
Billions
Now
Right
Start
Here
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