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Title: So close, and yet, ...
Review: This is the great "as if ..." Siegfried the journalist does an admirable job of synthesizing the cutting edge of thought in many fields, adding his original interpretations where warranted. "These days, more and more of [the scientists Siegfried talks to] think the universe works like a computer."The universe works as if it were a computer. But why should the universe work as if it were a computer? Siegfried bows to the weight of scientific culture in refusing to draw a conclusion, but his refutation of the Fredkin Hypothesis is probably not meant to be convincing. He allows the reader to add two plus two, and come out somewhere near the obvious: the universe works like a computer because it is a computer.Despite its drawing back from the edge, this is a most useful book.
