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Computation sits at the top of reality, not at its base: it is something our biosphere built after billions of years of evolution.

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  1. Sara Walker

    Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University

    There’s this assumption that computation is at the base of reality, and I see it at the top of reality, not at the base, because I think computation was built by our biosphere. It’s something that happened after many billion years of evolution. It doesn’t happen in every physical object.

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