I like to think of materiality as the constructions of matter that matter for human meaning. This view of materiality goes hand in hand with what I call the Computational Universe, that is, the claim that the universe is generated through computational processes running on a vast computational mechanism underlying all of physical reality. For scientists making the strong claim for computation as ontology, computation is the means by which reality is continually produced and reproduced on atomic, molecular, and macro levels.
— Hayles, N. Katherine. My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
