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Yes, I am a quantum mechanic! Those darn quantum computers break all the time.

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Computer, Mechanic, Break

"Life, the Universe, and Everything". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. March 1, 2006.

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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.

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Mean, People, Experiments

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For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.

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Sex, Moving, Dna

"Move Aside, Sex". The Edge Annual Question — 2010: "How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?", www.edge.org. 2010.

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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.

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Sex, Thinking, Civilization

"Newton's Principia Revisited". Book by Michael Schmiechen, 2009.

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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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Years, Density, Sitting

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Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.

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Complexes, Features, Universe

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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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Information, Process, Evolve

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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.

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Information, Computer, Significant

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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.

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Technology, Thinking, Forever

"Life, the Universe, and Everything". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. March 01, 2006.

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Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

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Pornography, Knows

Seth Lloyd (2011). “Programming The Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos”, p.32, Random House

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I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

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Digital, Facts, Computer

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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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Trying, Looks, Dynamics

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Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions.

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School, Law, Car

Nature 430, 971, August 26, 2004.

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By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.

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Sex, Fun, Integrity

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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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Information, Laptops, Currents

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If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

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Hair, Views, Dynamics

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