[andyjohnson0]

> Is there any significance of a beautiful painting of a magnificent sunset over mountain meadow with horses grazing?

Yes, but it was designed that way. By a person. For other people. Its unlikely to be perceived as "beautiful" by a whale or an oak tree or whatever.

But if things that weren't designed to do computation, or even designed at all, nevertheless appear to be capable of it, what does that tell us about computation? Given that the fundamental physical behaviour of the universe can (maybe) be described computationally, is computation special in some way?

[UncleMeat]

I don't think it needs to tell us anything about computation. It can be just a fun thing to do. We've got decades of "surprise this is Turing Complete" results. One more doesn't tell us anything about computation. But it's still fun!

Think of it like writing a quine in some weird language or something. We already know it can be done. But it is still cool!