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"The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations."
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"As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive."
"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
"The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do."
"As the complexity in any system increases, the ability to form a correct understanding decreases exponentially."
"The nature of reality is such that every sufficiently complex event is statistically impossible, they are all one time events. This is a dynamic of novelty and so anything stable is forced to fluctuate including meaning. When we measure a thing we may not see the dynamics as a consequence of resolution. This is because the holographic information field has a nested hierarchy of scale."
"I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity."
"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."
"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness."
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
"It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium."
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"Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes."
"Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book."
"I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it."
"It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment."
"The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests."
"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense."
"The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations."
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