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No, for the same reason it's not a vehicle even though it has many moving parts. A vehicle is something used to transport an agent. A computer is something used
by earthboundkid 3y ago
No, for the same reason it's not a vehicle even though it has many moving parts. A vehicle is something used to transport an agent. A computer is something used to do computation for an agent. Computation is the process of making reliable, rule-driven inferences about one system from another. If the universe is considered as a whole, there is no second system to which to applies the inferences made using the universe as a first system.
- hirundo 3y ago> there is no second system to which to applies the inferences made using the universe as a first system This is as much speculation as a statement that such a system does exist.
- earthboundkid 3y agoIn this case, the word "universe" means everything there is. If there's some kind of comic book like "multiverse", it's really just one "universe" with different pockets. It's not actually multiple "universes." I guess we can't rule out that someone is using Earth as a computer, but if they were, you'd expect the mice to get better cheese.