that the ultimate limit is the processes that the universe itself uses to "compute" its own state? That we can only ever asymptotically approach this limit? Once we hit the limit, our computations cease being simulations and become reality.
Agreed.
The 'laws' of the Universe can be said to operate at the smallest measure of x/y/z/planck-time/d5/d6/..... If the Universe has a smallest measure in each of these dimensions then there is a finite amount of time and space in the Universe, therefore a fixed amount of processing power. The Universe is simply playing out its rules at the smallest measure and we are happy byproducts of the process.
The Universe itself is the most efficient calculator that is possible in the Universe but the Universe has a finite amount of calculations before the state is forever flat at which point the Universe technically still exists but without any entropy, the Universe can be thought of as dead. That said, the Onmiverse has unlimited processing power but the calculations in those Universes as in our own take the form of realities.
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that the ultimate limit is the processes that the universe itself uses to "compute" its own state? That we can only ever asymptotically approach this limit? Once we hit the limit, our computations cease being simulations and become reality.
Agreed. The 'laws' of the Universe can be said to operate at the smallest measure of x/y/z/planck-time/d5/d6/..... If the Universe has a smallest measure in each of these dimensions then there is a finite amount of time and space in the Universe, therefore a fixed amount of processing power. The Universe is simply playing out its rules at the smallest measure and we are happy byproducts of the process. The Universe itself is the most efficient calculator that is possible in the Universe but the Universe has a finite amount of calculations before the state is forever flat at which point the Universe technically still exists but without any entropy, the Universe can be thought of as dead. That said, the Onmiverse has unlimited processing power but the calculations in those Universes as in our own take the form of realities.