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" Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation. "

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Science Fiction

" I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end. "

" It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end. "

" If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. "

Computer Science

" Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way. "

" But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person. "

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" It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable. "

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" Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. "