{"id":3915,"date":"2011-03-04T03:17:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T03:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/03\/04\/the-universe-is-a-huge-computational-machine-or\/"},"modified":"2011-03-04T03:17:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T03:17:20","slug":"the-universe-is-a-huge-computational-machine-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/04\/the-universe-is-a-huge-computational-machine-or\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>the universe is a huge computational machine, or rather a network of computational processes which, following fundamental physical laws, computes (dynamically develops) its own next state from the current one<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_physics\">Digital physics &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/purestform.tumblr.com\/\">purestform<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the universe is a huge computational machine, or rather a network of computational processes which, following fundamental physical laws, computes (dynamically develops) its own next state from the current one Digital physics &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via purestform)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-119","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4599,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/01\/17\/the-computational-medium\/","url_meta":{"origin":3915,"position":0},"title":"The Computational Medium","author":"monochromist","date":"January 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"purestform: Computation and mathematics provide an alluring common language between scientific models and aesthetic practice. 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