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By mtrimpe, Yesterday 04:58 PM
Seriously, we are all computers. Computers that are capable of optimising themselves. We are neural networks designed to optimize the realisation of some result. We all know what this result is: enlightenment, happiness, joy, whatever you want to call it.
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Well, if we are computers, we're being computed by a bigger computer, namely the Universe. And God knows what's computing
it!
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Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
by Seth Lloyd, M.I.T.
This book is the story of the universe and the bit. The universe is the biggest thing there is and the bit is the smallest possible chunk of information. The universe is made of bits. Every molecule, atom, and elementary particle registers bits of information. Every interaction between those pieces of the universe processes that information by altering those bits. That is, the universe computes, and because the universe is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics, it computes in an intrinsically quantum-mechanical fashion; its bits are quantum bits. The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.
This begs the question: What does the universe compute? It computes itself. The universe computes its own behavior. As soon as the universe began, it began computing.
Amazon.com: Programming the Universe: Books: Seth Lloyd
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Quote: Q&A: Seth Lloyd
A pioneer of quantum computing believes the universe is a quantum computer.
When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little and/or/not calculations. We're hacking into the universe.
Technology Review: Q&A: Seth Lloyd | See also:
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So what I'm saying is that the biosphere is part of an immense computer that may regress infinitely.
Which is, probably, Royce...off topic again...
But, mtrimpe, I agree that we set things in motion whilst dreaming our American Dream that we little dream of or want to wake up to, and that has huge karmic implications for spiritual enlightenment, I think.
But...I still shop at Wal-mart, I'm ashamed to say.
