Sublime

Also, the DNA example tells us that the presence of information is independent from our ability to decode it.

They’ve put a supercomputer in your pocket, are bringing the internet into developing countries, and are mapping the Earth’s land mass and oceans.

California Institute of Technology’s John Hopfield

Look, sometimes you have to make quick decisions. You can’t just have humans make them; you have to combine human and machine methods.”

Highly interacting out-of-equilibrium systems, whether they are trees reacting to the change of seasons or chemical systems processing information about the inputs they receive, teach us that matter can compute. These systems tell us that computation precedes the origins of life just as much as information does. The chemical changes encoded by thes

“The word information, in this theory, is used in a special sense that must not be confused with its ordinary usage. In particular, information must not be confused with meaning.”6