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The Computational Capacity of the Universe
- rms 19y agoI just got a Scribd error, document failed to convert.
- palish 19y agoThe submission's link was altered (automatically?) from a direct link to the PDF to this broken Scribd site. Working link: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/0110/0110141v1.pdf http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/0110/0110141v1.pdf (If the problem goes away, I'd appreciate it if an editor would remove the meta-comments from this submission's title.)
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- Herring 19y ago"Each age has its pinnacle of technology, and each age uses that technology as a metaphor for nature, for the universe. [...] Newton wanted a clockwork universe, the entire universe as a gigantic clockwork mechanism, with all the parts interlocking and ticking over with infinite precision. Then in the 19th century along came steam power, and the universe was then depicted as an enormous heat engine, or thermodynamic machine, running down toward its heat death. Today the computer is the pinnacle of technology, so it's now fashionable to talk about nature as a computational process. "