>>11188426>It does process data, every quantum state is informationNo, you've just abstracted it as information because "information" is a human concept applied to the universe to help make it understandable. A computer is much more than just information storage and retrieval, if it was so then every file cabinet and shelf built would qualify as a computer. This is not so, and is also not true of existence itself because existence itself does not take input and create output - we merely perceive it too because we lack a better explanation for Time as a concept. Really, Time itself doesn't exist - Time is just how we explain motion of energy. A computer is different, otherwise motion would be the universe's code and Time it's processor. This doesn't make sense because Time can't go backwards like a computer can. If the Universe can't go backward to the big bang, and if large elements of the universe cannot be reset to the big bang, it's not a computer. Existence as a whole is far more complicated than what a processing device could ever achieve.
>This isn't even questionable, perfectly simulating just a few particles with our Universe's rules is too hard a task for all our supercomputers put together.Yet calculating V=IR isn't despite it's massive influence upon existence. This is just an abstraction like all computers are. Which is why the universe isn't a computer, it's not an abstraction. You can't just rewrite reality's memory bank like you can with any computer's. Radiation proves this, because an element that has decayed into Lead cannot be reset back into Uranium or Plutonium (unless nuclear fusion occurs, but this requires a net energy input from somewhere else to not violate the second law of thermodynamics).
Until someone figures out a way to reverse entropy, we have hard evidence that the universe is not a computer.
