All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of. ↗
If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe. ↗
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars. ↗
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. ↗
C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group. ↗