Seth
Seth
Seth; placed; appointed"), in Judaism, Christianity, Mandaeism, and Islam, was the third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, who were the only other of their children mentioned by name in the Tanakh. According to Genesis 4:25, Seth was born after Abel's murder, and Eve believed God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth16 September 1962
CountryCanada
men brotherhood-of-man cities
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.
law life-is metabolism
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.
needs want information
Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.
important information degrees
There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.
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.