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
ignorance viruses spread
Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.
ongoing computer quantum
The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.
information computer significant
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.
sex moving dna
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.
sex thinking civilization
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.
order information normal
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.
views dynamics natural
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.
powerful computer wanted
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.
digital facts computer
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.
metaphor program capacity
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.
information process evolve
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.
views wish information
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.
law breaking-down break
At some point, Moore's law will break down.
features complexes universe
Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.