[Florin_Andrei]

> Wouldn't it be wild if this led to the realization that the universe is just a big blob of computronium and that we just happen to be some emergent behavior in it?

That's essentially what Max Tegmark keeps talking about. Of course, this is all very speculative at the moment, but folks at Tegmark's level are starting to say that our current understanding seems to point in that direction.

It's still quite possible that someone will come along and show that reality is quite different after all. Things feel (and are) quite unfinished at the moment; this is very different from 19th century physics, when we thought we had reached the end of science.

[edem]

This seems like a depth first search in a tree. The deeper you go (the more you learn) more and more ways open up to investigate.

[visarga]

No, the universe is a holodeck simulation in an even higher level reality. And then, it's turtles all the way down.