January 2009
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"...even a bucket of rusting nails should have, in principle, the computational oomph of a desktop computer, a human brain or the universe itself." →
query.nytimes.com
“Every physical action, from the crashing of a wave to the rusting of a tin can, can be thought of as a computation in which the universe moves from some initial input moment by moment to an outcome — from a cresting ridge of water to bubbles of foam on the sand.”
