What is remarkable is that human beings are actually able to carry out this code-breaking operation, that the human mind has the necessary intellectu… - Paul Davies

So in effect, information serves as a fuel, and this leads to the whole concept of information engines. Engines that will run on information power...

[T]his is something that can't be defined locally. It's got to be defined globally, in the context of the system as a whole. ...[T]hat's a very difficult thing for physicists to cope with because we're used to formulating all our laws of physics as local laws, and not as global laws.

[W]e... need some new physics. ...The attempt to square the circle by starting out with known physics at the atomic level and somehow life emerging at some higher level... I... don't think we're going to be able to do it without new physics.