Rise of the Posthuman Technocracy

‘When Seth Lloyd, a professor of Quantum-Mechanical Engineering at MIT first suggested that the Universe was a giant, quantum computer, the notion garnered a few people’s attention. Lloyd believes that everything in the Universe is made up of chunks of information called ‘bits,’ disputable as a seeming extension of the materialistic view of the world where ‘stuff’ is all there is, with no ability for a sentient being to escape the Matrix. Those green, streaming numbers in the opening scene of the film, in fact, would account for everything if it were up to Lloyd, but he is not alone in assuming that we live in a Universe with such a limited description.’
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