Wei_Dai comments on The mathematical universe: the map that is the territory - Less Wrong
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I don't think this argument works, because any interesting universe would have physics that allow the implementation of arbitrary Turing machines, and there is no non-iterative non-recursive formula for calculating the state of an arbitrary Turing machine at time t.
Doesn't this imply that no finite universe is interesting?