The wide ranging scholarship of N. Katherine Hayles is pretty amazing. In her work My Mother Was a Computer, she considers both Jacques Derrida, Stephen Wolfram, and Harold Morowitz in some depth in relationship to meta-physics, code, and the regime of computation. Here is a passage in which she considers Derrida’s notion of a “transcendental signified” in relationship to Wolfram’s notion of complexity arising from the interaction of systems defined by simple rules. From this idea of simple rules Wolfram and others will envision a universe whose source code is an underlying computational system (the regime of computation). e.g that the universe is a Universal Computer. However, Hayles will later go on to deconstruct this notion of "A Universal Computer" as just another metaphysical validity claim.

Possibly no philosopher in the last century has been more successful than Jacques Derrida in exposing the impossible yearning at the heart of metaphysics for the transcendental signified [as?] the manifestation of Being so potent it needs no signifier to verify its authenticity.

Yet Derrida repeatedly remarks that we cannot simply leave metaphysics behind. He frequently asserts that metaphysics is so woven into the structures of Western Philosophy, science, and social structures that it continually imposes itself on language and indeed, on thought itself, creeping back in at the very moment it seems to have been exorcised. In this sense, classical metaphysics plays the role of the hegemonic influence that makes Derrida’s resistant writings necessary and meaningful as a cultural practice. Derrida’s discourse , as he himself remarks, "is entirely taken up with the reading of other texts” and in this sense can be considered parasitic. In his early writings this preoccupation focuses specifically on texts that re-inscribe the metaphysical yearning for presence that he devotes himself to deconstruct. To paraphrase a notorious remark , if metaphysics did not exist, Derrida would have been forced to invent it.

The wide reaching claims made for the Regime of Computation are displayed in Stephan Wolfram’s : A New Kind of Science. The ambition of this book is breathtaking, especially considering the modesty with which scientists have traditionally put their claims forth. This book makes a fascinating contribution to the Regime of Computation, demonstrating that through Wolfram's twenty years of research into cellular automata that simple rules can indeed generate complexity through computational means. 

Wolfram: "Underneath the laws of the physics as we know them today it could be that there lies a very simple program from which all known laws – and ultimately all complexity we see in the universe – emerges." — Far from presuming the transcendental signified that Derrida identifies as intrinsic to classical metaphysics, computation privileges the emergence of complexity from simple elements and rules (differ, defer, difference).

Wolfram comments that “throughout most of the history it has been taken for granted that such complexity – being so vastly greater than in the work of humans – could only be the work of a Supernatural Being. Now complexity is understood as emerging from the computational processes that constitute the universe, and that changes everything." Wolfram summarizes ".. just as the rules for any system can be viewed as corresponding to a program, so also behavior can be viewed as a computation."

"Since Wolfram mostly explores lower levels of complex systems, particles, molecules, his claims are incomplete (as Ray Kurzweil points out) to fully explain emergence of higher order forms of complexity, in which not only computation but pressures of evolutionary selection are involved," Hayles remarks. This is where the views of Harold Morowitz and like minded researchers become important . 

In The EMERGENCE of Everything: How the World Became Complex, Morowitz reviews 28 stages in the history of the cosmos to show they can be categorized as emergent processes, each of which builds on the complexities that emerged on the preceeding levels.

…. Building on these ideas Morowitz groups his 28 events into 4 main stages, the emergence of the cosmos, the emergence of life, the emergence of mind, the emergence of  mind contemplating mind, reflexivity. He believes we are on the threshold of this last stage whose development will be the catalyst for further evolution of the human into the post-human, in the centuries ahead. He finds the Noosphere of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin as the next stage in evolution of intelligent life. ………..