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Yeah, the comparison was more or a philosophical thing.

And so was my answer. A universe could be seen as a computer and philosophically speaking you cannot say humans are separate from the rest of the universal computer. The universe is also finite so the Turing machine is not a good example but a finite state machine might be a better concept for thinking about the universe.

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics#Pancomputationalism_or_the_computational_universe_theory
  2. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/508246/why-the-universe-is-not-a-computer-after-all/
  3. http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring06/cos116/FSM_Tutorial.pdf
  4. http://wiki.c2.com/?FiniteStateMachine