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“ …. The third interpretation, which of course is
more controversial, arises if we imagine that the
universe is itself a computer and that what it's
doing is performing a computation. If this is the
case, these numbers say how big that
computation is — how many ops have been
performed on how many bits within the horizon
since the universe began. That, of course, is
more controversial, and since publishing this
paper I've received what is charitably described
as "hate mail" from famous scientists.”
https://www.edge.org/conversation/seth_lloyd-the-computational-universe
Seth Lloyd, MIT Physics
Interview on Edge.org