#computation

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

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes. ↗

— David Deutsch

#be the first #between #collaboration #computation #distinctively

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations? ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ask #been #capable #computations #digital