(in the Greg Egan edition of this thesis, the speed of light emerges as a property of evaluative propagation through a functional universe, and new forms of consciousness are encountered living within the Lisp machine of the cosmos)
If the universe is deterministic, then there is no information (everything can be computed from the initial conditions).
Is there even one?
Do the lambdas just loop back unto themselves??
Or to put it less stiffly, the universe can't be computed separately from itself, since it includes the evaluation of itself.
Both statements are in contrast with a classical deterministic universe, such as a cellular automaton.
However, in this framework, we can hypothesise that terminal conditions exist, and not just by running your Lisp machine with GC disabled