http://www.toddhester.net/rantings/2006/04/23/the-universe-as-a-giant-computer/ Random articles, thoughts, ideas, musings, rantings, and more from me!! Sun, 20 May 2012 00:18:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 http://www.toddhester.net/rantings/2006/04/23/the-universe-as-a-giant-computer/#comment-1714 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:23:30 +0000 http://www.toddhester.net/rantings/2006/04/23/the-universe-as-a-giant-computer/#comment-1714 [...] In this talk, Seth Lloyd talks about the universe as a giant computer and the implications of that notion.  As I’ve described before, the universe is a giant computer because all of the atoms and molecules in the world represent information through their various qualities such as spin, etc.  Every interaction between atoms or molecules is, in fact, a computation.  Since the universe is infinite, this giant computer will compute everything possibly computable.  Since a computer can simulate any other computer, this includes computing more computers.  Namely, us.  As the universe computes all possible computations, some of this create increasing complexity, eventually leading to bacteria, animals, humans, and the computers we have today. [...] […] In this talk, Seth Lloyd talks about the universe as a giant computer and the implications of that notion.  As I’ve described before, the universe is a giant computer because all of the atoms and molecules in the world represent information through their various qualities such as spin, etc.  Every interaction between atoms or molecules is, in fact, a computation.  Since the universe is infinite, this giant computer will compute everything possibly computable.  Since a computer can simulate any other computer, this includes computing more computers.  Namely, us.  As the universe computes all possible computations, some of this create increasing complexity, eventually leading to bacteria, animals, humans, and the computers we have today. […]

]]> http://www.toddhester.net/rantings/2006/04/23/the-universe-as-a-giant-computer/#comment-12 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:32:44 +0000 http://www.toddhester.net/rantings/2006/04/23/the-universe-as-a-giant-computer/#comment-12 Interesting, sounds sort of similar to the idea in the Hitchhiker's guide series that the earth is just a big computer, and the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything, is 42. :-P Interesting, sounds sort of similar to the idea in the Hitchhiker’s guide series that the earth is just a big computer, and the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything, is 42.

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