Lee Smolin: computation and information

"The holographic principle, of which there are several versions by different people, is that the laws of physics should be rewritten, or could be rewritten including dynamics, how things evolve in time, so we're no longer talking about things happening out there in the world in space, we're talking about representing systems that we observe in terms of the information as it evolves on the screen."

Smolin quotes Einstein, "I'm not smarter than anyone else, I just think longer and harder." heh
(a short video)

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Further reading on Edge:
"A Theory of the Whole Universe" in The Third Culture
"A Possible Solution For The Problem Of Time In Quantum Cosmology" by Stuart Kauffman and Lee Smolin
"Loop Quantum Gravity": Lee Smolin

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From CBC Radio's "Quirks and Quarks":
Why Einstein Matters: A Full-Edition Public Forum

"This year marks the 100th anniversary of what has become known as Einstein’s Miracle Year. During a few brief months in 1905, an obscure 26-year-old patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland, published four extraordinary science papers that would change the laws of physics, and our ideas about the universe. That clerk was, of course, Albert Einstein."

Listen to or download the mp3 | Ogg files for Part I, or the mp3 | Ogg files for Part II.

"Communities of practice" - a brief introduction
"The world is waiting for community"
UK's Hansard Society.

That, and the $1.75 in my hand ... cool, I get a cuppa coffee!

"A man is not a fool to give up what he cannot keep in order to gain what he cannot lose."

Food for thought: "You Don't Have to do it Alone" (Darn ... lost the URL to the Amazon book list)