{"title":"The Computational Cosmic Brain","authors":"I. Ginsburg, M. Lingam, Merrill Butler","doi":"10.22606/ADAP.2019.43001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The cosmic web exhibits some striking similarities to that of an animal brain. Despite its tremendous size the cosmos is many orders of magnitude less efficient at computation than the brains residing in Earth’s biosphere. This shows just how information-rich life truly is.","PeriodicalId":131060,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Astrophysics","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in Astrophysics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.22606/ADAP.2019.43001","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The cosmic web exhibits some striking similarities to that of an animal brain. Despite its tremendous size the cosmos is many orders of magnitude less efficient at computation than the brains residing in Earth’s biosphere. This shows just how information-rich life truly is.