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I’d always felt that the important problems out there in the world had to do with the creation of organization, in life or intelligence.
Thoughtful physicists concerned with the workings of thermodynamics realize how disturbing is the question of, as one put it, “how a purposeless flow of energy can wash life and consciousness into the world.”
“God plays dice with the universe,” is Ford’s answer to Einstein’s famous question. “But they’re loaded dice. And the main objective of physics now is to find out by what rules were they loaded and how can we use them for our own ends.”
It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew was wrong.
