So, I see the whole universe as a function. Its input is its own prior state, its output is its own next state. It cycles in Planck time.

Its logic is described by math implemented in physics, which in turn decomposes into biology and cognition and even, sometimes, software.

But there's really just the one big function. An infinite relation between everything and everything else, over time, forever.

This is kinda my religious belief, I guess? It compels no particular behavior.

@mykola we call that an autonomous dynamical map. It's the discrete time version of a differential equation, effectively. Of course, no one has yet managed to tunnel down to the timescale where they'd be able to find out whether that discretization is proper or not

@atomicarcane Even a simulation slowed down by many orders of magnitude would be crippled by a lack of infrastructure to execute it.

The universe is itself a distributed computer, in some way I don't fully understand. It's like all matter is just information that transforms according to knowable - but not necessarily known - rules.