The surprising fact that science works at all is a strong indication that our universe is mechanical.
No, why? Nothing stops you from writing an arbitrarily long sequence of unpredictable bits into the initial state of the machine.
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Ah so then something exists _outside_ the Turing machine, which gave rise to it.
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Exactly, this is a problem that cannot be solved from within the machine, because its inhabitants are causally insulated from it. It is a much smaller problem than any competing ontology that I know of, because a Turing machine is so very cheap to make, but it is abhorrent.
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