Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloydis a professor of mechanical engineering and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He refers to himself as a "quantum mechanic"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
CountryUnited States of America
american-educator complexity entirely maybe surprised
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.
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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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So science is basically, at it most fundamental level, a public form of knowledge, a form of knowledge that is in principle accessible to everybody.
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Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
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The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.
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The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops.
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The primary consequence of the computational nature of the universe is that the universe naturally generates complex systems, such as life. Although the basic laws of physics are comparatively simple in form, they give rise, because they are computationally universal, to systems of enormous complexity.
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Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.
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Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.
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Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.