Computationalism (the idea that everything in existence is fully characterized by states and transition functions) is
QM is still a computational theory, just not classical. It always comes down to a big table of numbers, then your Hamiltonian comes along, and you get a new table of numbers. (I think that the universe may be digital, but that is a much stronger hypothesis than computationalism.)
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When you say digital, you mean discrete? Yes, that's a stronger statement. Does states and transitions imply discrete? It seems like it does! What does computational mean? Meaning that there's a previous state in time that leads to the current state?
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The general form of computationalism encompasses continuous transition functions, i.e. even though General Relativity is hypercomputational due to its continuity, it is a computational theory. (Personally, I bet on digital physics, but yes, that is a much stronger statement.)
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