Seth Lloyd

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

#advantage #available #calculation #energy #full

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

#capable #dynamics #look #model #program

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

#evolving #existing #information #merely #physical

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#death #except #law #life #nothing

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#everybody #experiments #for the people #go #means

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#being #certainly #civilization #course #history

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

#ask #been #capable #computations #digital

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#consists #duplicated #exactly #forms #knowledge

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#configuration #dna #exact #famous #fluctuation

Something else has happened with computers. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#else #happened #something