Re: Is the Universe a Computer

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From: Jan Bielawski
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 00:00

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In article <35C0E17D.E5CFFE0F@ns.sympatico.ca> jwcrght@mta.ca writes:
<    No I actually don't believe the universe is a
< computer but my mind has been over firing with ideas about
< material that is well beyond what I learned.

This idea strikes me as Yet Another Example of grabbing a currently
fashionable gadget/theory and making it into a Theory of Everything.

It happened many times before, beginning with the Renaissance where
mathematics was to explain everything about human condition in general,
electricity and magnetism was to explain the afterlife, and now
we have computers, and quantum mechanics is "on the verge of" explaining
God.
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Date: 1998/07/31
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