[dandare]

It always fascinated me how basically two quarks, one electron and some bosons can create so much chemical complexity.

It feels like trowing just 6 types of lego bricks into a huge bag and after a lot of random mixing obtaining whole universe of diversity.

[zeroonetwothree]

All the complexity of computing comes from just two bits.

(Some even argue that’s true of the universe itself)

[dandare]

Not true, the bits live in a super complex hardware, the don't create any complexity on their own.

[19h]

Except there’s no such thing as bits on the hardware level. There’s voltages. High and low. That’s usually 5V and 0V, respectively.

[meetups323]

You're thinking too concretely. The hardware we know is only one tiny implementation of computation. The broader concept holds across any writeable tape of any sort, whether it uses voltages in silicon, rocks on a beach, or exists only in a person's mind, does not matter one bit -- they're all equally powerful.