Protocomputation
“The Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory … In effect, the system brings itself into existence as a means of atemporal communication between its past and future whereby law and state, syntax and informational content, generate and refine each other across time to maximize total systemic self-utility. This defines a situation in which the true temporal identity of the system is a distributed point of temporal equilibrium that is both between and inclusive of past and future. In this sense, the system is timeless or atemporal.
A system that evolves by means of telic recursion – and ultimately, every system must either be, or be embedded in, such a system as a condition of existence – is not merely computational, but protocomputational. That is, its primary level of processing configures its secondary (computational and informational) level of processing by telic recursion. Telic recursion can be regarded as the self-determinative mechanism of not only cosmogony, but a natural, scientific form of teleology.” http://infolab.ho.ua/Langan_CTMU_092902(1).pdf
“Flash from Deep Space: Supernews on Supernovas … By its nature, the CTMU replaces ordinary mechanical computation with what might better be called protocomputation. Whereas computation is a process defined with respect to a specific machine model, e.g. a Turing machine, protocomputation is logically "pre-mechanical". That is, before computation can occur, there must (in principle) be a physically realizable machine to host it. But in discussing the origins of the physical universe, the prior existence of a physical machine cannot be assumed. Instead, we must consider a process capable of giving rise to physical reality itself...a process capable of not only implementing a computational syntax, but of serving as its own computational syntax by self-filtration from a realm of syntactic potential. When the word "computation" appears in the CTMU, it is usually to protocomputation that reference is being made.” https://web.archive.org/web/20180804031832/http://www.megafoundation.org/CTMU/Articles/Supernova.html
