There is a new cosmology blowing in from the horizons of the technoscientific imagination, and it may well swallow you up. Call it the computational universe, a cosmos in which everything — thoughts, genes, galaxies, subatomic wiggles — is reduced to bits churning through algorithmic cascades. From artificial life to quantum physics to cognitive psychology, the computational universe has become a Major Metaphor. Everything computes; everything is code.  Welcome to silicon sands of the posthuman shore…