Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.
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Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.
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.
Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
Technologies that exist between man and nature in a simple form and those that enable the interaction with other technologies are becoming significantly more complex and create their own information systems.
If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.
Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
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