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. (Seth Lloyd)

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.

Related topics

computation define information physical thought view processing

Related quotes

The relations that define a system as a unity, and determine the dynamics of interaction and transformations which it may undergo as such a unity constitute the organization of the machine.

Humberto Maturana

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think in fact they do so.

Bertrand Russell

It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

James Gleick

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Norman Vincent Peale