What if?
Separating the universe into small parts, we have that each part of the universe runs an algorithm, depending on the size of the piece, the algorithm is different, also the algorithm expires and is updated in a new one.
It sounds complicated but, if we have a rule at the beginning, (for example substitution), giving the simulation time can give us something very complex. Taking pieces of that cellular automata (for example) , we realize that there may be other rules in other pieces at a time 't'.
The problem is that we are moving away from the original rule. Making the laws of physics and algorithms more difficult to track. By the way making the universe more continuous.
Why are we moving away from the original rule?
That is just an assumption, given the fact that:
We will never know the complete information of the universe.
We can only see a part of the universe, due to the expansion (visible range)
The universe seems to be continuous but we already know that it is not so.
If we make the pieces small enough we could talk about particles. The universe creates the particles, with its algorithm. It creates them differently for each region of the universe, they run different sub-algorithms, even so there are some algorithms that do not depend on the region, (or a long time) these algorithms are what we physicists study as the laws of physical.
Remembering that algorithms are mixed with others, creating more pseudo-algorithms or sub-algorithms (and thus more nested loops). So the universe is like a computer that updates itself as it runs?
It seems smart.
Artificial intelligence?
Also with quantum computing, and the different path integrals of two paths. I think it's possible to say that not only does the algorithm receive a single input it can be a vector or whatever. A scalar value is not simply a 1 or a 0, it can be intermediate values of these. That is why the outputs can be very varied.
Algorithms and probability.
It may also be that of a set of algorithms S, each one is more likely than another to take a bit or quibit.
Different algorithms can give out the same result (many paths integrals) different paths can give the same thing.
If the principle of least action applies, we realize that the universe may always take the least complicated algorithm and the one that saves the most computation and energy, where it feels more "comfortable" with the final (or initial) organization.
These are just ideas from a frustrated physics lover.
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