I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.

We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control.

Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.

There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.

It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.

My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.