 There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important. |
| Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science. |
| Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA. |
| 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. |
| It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable. |
| 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. |
| If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available. |
| Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs. Topics: Computer |
