22.V.1430
if the entire universe is an algorithm,
then its entire run and outcome set must be known in advance.
there are good reasons why it is an algorithm, and not only as a collection of cellular automata primitives.
it is an alg, as a process that is controlled by sets of constraints - which are the physical laws.
even for a chaotic process, the constraints of physics , or of nature, apply.
it is an algorithm also in the sense of a dynamic model, we know it is controlled or self-regulating/controlling because the persistence of form of some of its objects , like us, despite a continual flow of matter "through" us. That was pointed out by Wiener in Cybernetics
Since a state function is defined (even if it is unknown) by the domain/range, and because a process itself is a set of state or transitions functions, it mus be viewed as a design, ie no different from other state transition machines, or state machines, or automata - save in complexity of course.
The implication is clear. As an algorithm, a formal (vs. natural) automatic machine, it is designed and like any well-designed system, its behavior and outcomes must have been anticipated and fully understood before its "deployment" :)
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