I find it so fascinating that fundamental properties about the laws of physics integrate so tightly with what is computable. The standard definition of compatibility involving Turing machines sounds kind of arbitrary, but those machines are representative a truly fundamental concept in our universe: that which is physically knowable, since you can build Turing machines out of the stuff in the universe.
Almost. Turing machines have unbounded tape. But the universe does not contain an unbounded amount of information or space with which to work. Sufficiently large Turing computations, though theoretically finite, are not realizable in our universe. Should such computations be considered decidable or undecidable?