Your option 1 seems to make a false distinction that something
non-computational could exist
William Rapaport, in the paper PhilGoetz refers to, appears to exclude
the idea that the universe is performing computation.
He states:
… it could also be said that it is Kepler’ s laws that are
computable and that describe the behaviour of the solar system, yet
the solar system does not compute them, i.e. the behaviour of the
solar system is not a computation, even though its behaviour is
computable.
I would agree with you, that the universe is performing computation.
William Rapaport, in the paper PhilGoetz refers to, appears to exclude the idea that the universe is performing computation.
He states:
I would agree with you, that the universe is performing computation.