#computation

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. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#consists #define #determine #how #information

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. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#computation #computer #digital #fact #i

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. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#basis #capacity #complex #computational #explanation

In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#computational #hope #i #make #metaphor

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#ago #comet #computations #did #first

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#obeys #process #rules

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt! ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#answer #anything #clear #computation #final

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#computation #convince #everything #i #lately

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#computations #computer #computer science #effect #kinds

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#certain #certain way #computations #everywhere #look