It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

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

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.

All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

When you zap things with light to build quantum computers, you're hacking existing systems. You're hijacking the computation that's already happening in the universe, just like a hacker takes over someone else's computer.