And so was my answer. A universe could be seen as a computer and philosophically speaking you cannot say humans are separate from the rest of the universal computer. The universe is also finite so the Turing machine is not a good example but a finite state machine might be a better concept for thinking about the universe.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics#Pancomputationalism_or_the_computational_universe_theory
- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/508246/why-the-universe-is-not-a-computer-after-all/
- http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring06/cos116/FSM_Tutorial.pdf
- http://wiki.c2.com/?FiniteStateMachine