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A claim that event horizons exist is like someone's claim to be immortal: You would have to wait until the end of time to confirm the claim.Seth Lloyd
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Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.Seth Lloyd
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Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.Seth Lloyd
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Something else has happened with computers.Seth Lloyd
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What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.Seth Lloyd
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Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.Seth Lloyd