Word: lloyds
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...extremely poignant passage at the end of the book, Lloyd brings this down to a human scale, and says why it all matters...
...Lloyd never tells me how a quantum computer really works: how do we make it, program it, and then get information out of it? He has spent years doing just that, but he doesn’t let us in on the secret...
...biggest (and most controversial) idea in Lloyd’s book may be his take on why the world is so complex. Admittedly more a metaphysical musing than hard science, Lloyd takes comfort in the idea that coherent information creates more coherent information and that our universe was programmed for order. Lloyd sees life and evolutionary complexity as almost deterministically guaranteed...
...describing the death of his dear friend and mentor Heinz Pagels on a hiking trip, Lloyd sees information as the ultimate connection between all of us: “Heinz’s body and brain are gone...But we have not entirely lost him. While he lived, Heinz programmed his own piece of the universe. The resulting computation unfolds in us and around us...Heinz’s piece of the universal computation goes...
...Certainty,” which was edited by John Brockman. The panelists, who all contributed essays to the book, featured Harvard psychology professors, Daniel Gilbert, Mark D. Hauser, and Elizabeth Spelke, as well as a Tufts philosophy professor, Daniel C. Dennett, and an MIT engineering professor, Seth Lloyd. Spelke said she believes human beings are alike, but that she also believes they are predisposed to believe they are fundamentally different. She said, though, that she remained convinced that people are capable of overcoming their beliefs when these are disproved. Gilbert claimed that “the only fact that proves...