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 informatio…
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Seth Lloyd is an American quantum information scientist and professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Seth LloydOf course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.
Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
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 inf…
Something else has happened with computers.
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Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.