The scandal of the computational universe First part: the qualitative concepts

摘要

This work presents a comprehensive computational- universe vision. To start, we present the computational model adopted and we show the issues that have to be resolved in order to make credible the computational universe vision. To resolve these issues we introduce an ultimate limit of knowledge: observers that are part of a system/universe have no access on information concerning the fundamental nature of the elementary entities/particles composing the system/universe but only on information concerning their behaviour. Then, we use this limit to develop a computational universe model in which the behaviour of particles is the result of a computation-like process performed by meta-objects, and in which space and time are also engendered by this computation. The qualitative results obtained are used in a companion paper to propose a computational universe vision of special relativity and quantum mechanics.