Is the universe isomorphic to a universal turing machine?

Question

I often think about problems that require an understanding of the very essence of computation and its inherent limitations. So, my questions are as followed: - Is the universe isomorphic to a universal turing machine? - Is the universe isomorphic to a universal quantum computer? - What evidence do we have within our universe to support an answer to such a question? - What corollaries follow from a universe that is or is not isomorphic to a universal turing machine (or universal quantum turing machine)? - Is this question really answerable, and what is the current literature on this subject? I'm mostly interested in the implications and corollaries that follow from a universe that is or is not isomorphic to a turing machine (or universal quantum computer) and the insights that it would provide us with, about the nature of computation.

Answer 1

First of all, it would have to be isomorphic to the universe minus the Turing machine, or you have an infinite referencing problem.

I have studied this for decades and find the whole thing riddled with false assumptions.

The mind/brain is part of the universe and it participates already in all that reaches consciousness, it does not sit God-like outside the rest of reality.

This situation ignores all development of the world to something higher. The Philosopher Bernard Lonergan has written on this in "INSIGHT" . I think most Turing fans subscribe to what Lonergan calls the mistake of thinking knowledge is  'the already, out, there, now, real' 

Where is the place of WILL in all this, of FREEDOM.