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“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.”
“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.”
“Something else has happened with computers.”
“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.”