There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices.

I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.