"Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs."

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"Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs."

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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."

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"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."

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