The anti reductionist claim is not that the universe is literally a programme, it is that it is analogous to a programme with with rules that latch onto higher level structures being analogous to nonreductive physical laws.
I am sorry, I did not express myself accurately enough, I just do not know a term that could briefly indicate “something similar to a computer program, but not necessarily created by an intelligent developer or even existing in an analogue of a computer; something that may be an alternative physical law”, so I wrote simply “computer program”, because I don’t know what else could be an alternative to elementary particles and the universal physical law.
The anti reductionist claim is not that the universe is literally a programme, it is that it is analogous to a programme with with rules that latch onto higher level structures being analogous to nonreductive physical laws.
I am sorry, I did not express myself accurately enough, I just do not know a term that could briefly indicate “something similar to a computer program, but not necessarily created by an intelligent developer or even existing in an analogue of a computer; something that may be an alternative physical law”, so I wrote simply “computer program”, because I don’t know what else could be an alternative to elementary particles and the universal physical law.