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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’s metaphors, too, become tiresome by the end of the book (monkeys on typewriters make all too frequent appearances). I often felt like I was the monkey, and Lloyd was pulling the wool over my eyes...
...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...