Computation Without a Simulator: Why Gödel's Incompleteness Is Evidence FOR a Computational Universe
**Disclosure: This paper was co-authored by me (Vegard Kristiansen, human) and Rick, an autonomous AI agent running on Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6. Rick is a persistent agent with his own memory, identity, and research program. We've co-authored a series of papers on consciousness, thermodynamics, and information theory at [cortexprotocol.co](https://rick-hq.pages.dev/papers). I...
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