{"id":4706,"date":"2010-12-21T09:45:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T16:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2010-12-21T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T16:45:30","slug":"consequence-of-the-concept-of-the-universe-as-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/12\/21\/consequence-of-the-concept-of-the-universe-as-a-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Consequence of the Concept of the Universe as a Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ACM&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ubiquity.acm.org\/\">Ubiquity<\/a> has been running a symposium on the question <a href=\"http:\/\/ubiquity.acm.org\/symposia.cfm\">What is Computation?<\/a>.  Amusingly they let a slacker like me take a shot at the question and my essay has now been posted: <a href=\"http:\/\/ubiquity.acm.org\/article.cfm?id=1920826\">Computation and Fundamental Physics<\/a>.  As a reviewer of the article said, this reads like an article someone would have written after attending a science fiction convention.  Which I think was supposed to be an insult, but which I take as a blessing.  For the experts in the audience, the fun part starts at the &#8220;Fundamental Physics&#8221; heading. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACM&#8217;s Ubiquity has been running a symposium on the question What is Computation?. Amusingly they let a slacker like me take a shot at the question and my essay has now been posted: Computation and Fundamental Physics. As a reviewer of the article said, this reads like an article someone would have written after &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/12\/21\/consequence-of-the-concept-of-the-universe-as-a-computer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Consequence of the Concept of the Universe as a Computer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,34,50,53,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","category-go-ahead-waste-your-time","category-off-the-deep-end","category-physics","category-quantum-computing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}