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Ep 122: ”Work and Heat” - Chiara Marletto’s ”The Science of Can and Can’t” Chapter 6 Readings & Discussion.

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We Aren't Just a Universal Computer

Human beings can make anything that is able to be made, given enough time and resources. So long as the universal constructor has resources in the energy and the knowledge of how to do so then it will be able to construct the thing you wanted to construct. But on top of this, people need something as well if they're going to construct something reliably. If theyre if they've just made up the plan themselves, or they've been given a plan by some one else, the interest in doing so cathe they want to persist in following this particular thing,. People are strange, very strange. We have within us a universal computer of a kind, or at least we can, in principle

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