Yup, had the same insight in 2018, and Stephen Wolfram made a comment along these lines shortly after. I'll have to dig into my twitter archive to find it.
Wolfram is expanding his computation / irreducibility concepts to what he calls ruliology - all rules that could exist computationally. Wild stuff. No topic off limits to him.
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/10/endless-forms-most-beautiful-and-most-wonderful-ruliobiology-and-the-theoretical-foundations-of-biological-form/
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/10/endless-forms-most-beautiful-and-most-wonderful-ruliobiology-and-the-theoretical-foundations-of-biological-form/
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