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"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."
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"The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body."

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"Let each person decide his or her fate."

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"Mind and Soul are one and the same thing."

"Beauty, love with truth, that is all there is."

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"Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy."


"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."


"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."


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"Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody."


"There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important."


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