In reality, all the computer program specifies is the simulation of a QM wave function (complex scalar field in an infinite dimensional hilbertspace with space curvature or something like that), along with the minimum message of the conditions of the big bang.
You left out where you have to say something about where we are in that large universe that evolved from that Big Bang. That is going to be a huge amount of data because, given many worlds, that is such a huge universe that even a position in that universe is huge.
We actually don’t need to uniquely identify our exact position; we just need enough be able to compute a next observed event. The locations of planets in Andromeda or mineral deposits deep underground would be computable from our exact position in the multiverse, but if we haven’t yet observed them they don’t have to be included in the bits required to predict the next event.
In reality, all the computer program specifies is the simulation of a QM wave function (complex scalar field in an infinite dimensional hilbertspace with space curvature or something like that), along with the minimum message of the conditions of the big bang.
You left out where you have to say something about where we are in that large universe that evolved from that Big Bang. That is going to be a huge amount of data because, given many worlds, that is such a huge universe that even a position in that universe is huge.
We actually don’t need to uniquely identify our exact position; we just need enough be able to compute a next observed event. The locations of planets in Andromeda or mineral deposits deep underground would be computable from our exact position in the multiverse, but if we haven’t yet observed them they don’t have to be included in the bits required to predict the next event.