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I don’t think being a materialist implies that. It’s entirely possible for matter/the fabric of the universe to have non-computable properties.

• R0b0t1 5y ago
  Computers exist inside the universe so the universe must be able to compute things. Likewise you can look for certain hallmarks of information manipulation that mean you are computing something. Usually philosophers talking about these things either haven't read or are just discovering complexity theory.
  • sgt101 5y ago
    >Computers exist inside the universe so the universe must be able to compute things. Yes - but there may be other mechanisms of translating information into outcomes that are possible in the universe as well. I don't know any though.
    • R0b0t1 5y ago
      Yes, obviously, but those things are computation.
      • sgt101 5y ago
        Ahh - no; some of them are uncomputable in the sense that a u.turing machine cannot calculate them. For example no-repeat tiling.