Seth Lloyd Quotes

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. - Seth Lloyd

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information. - Seth Lloyd

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. - Seth Lloyd

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there. - Seth Lloyd

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

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. - Seth Lloyd

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe. - Seth Lloyd

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

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