2 ;;Quote: thought/semantics is equivalent to capturing the compact structure of the world

3 ;;Quote: life arises from the execution of a computer program, i.e., syntax; the complex world is captured by a compact program

4 ;;Quote: DNA defines mind; reasoning is fast because the mind only searches through meaningful possibilities

7 ;;Quote: a line is predictive because there are very few ways to draw lines

7+;;Quote: a program reflects a natural process if it produces the same data points

11 ;;Quote: program evolution has produced minds that mirror the structure of the world and perform amazing calculations about the world

22 ;;Quote: our understanding of the world is so compact and constrained that each step follows more or less inexorably from the last

22 ;;Quote: evolution developed complex behaviors from simple behaviors with each step following from the previous step without much search