The cosmos being a computer sounds to me like a convenient way of explaining how things work based on our current knowledge about how information works. But what if we are right and the cosmos is a computer program? This would mean that all things that exist in the physical universe are, in essence, the computational process of the cosmos generating itself. Does that make sense?
I would agree that everything is derived from an underlying ultimate reality that is the initial singularity (with zero entropy), but surely this First Cause is a natural phenomenon unfolding with the potential to express this initial infinite side to nature in relation to its opposite natural side...that of the final singularity (infinite entropy), or absolute nothingness.
If so it seems to me there is an infinite plus and an infinite minus side behind nature with information being the potential between these ultimate polar opposites. I can understand an absolute nothingness side as the minus side, but can we ever know what the infinite plus side is? We can't because it is just as intangible and indecipherable as an infinite nothingness.
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