Can information processing go beyond quantum mechanics?

    Is it reasonable to assume that an information process can underlie quantum mechanics? Most physicists would say that Einstein's naive concept that a causal process underlies quantum mechanics is wrong. However, is there a possibility that an ultra-weird, semi-causal information process underlies quantum mechanics? Fredkin and Wolfram have conjectured a bizarre generalization of information processing that might be sufficiently flexible to axiomatize both quantum mechanics and general relativity theory. The odds against Fredkin and Wolfram might be not a million to one but instead ten to one. By adding another bizarre idea to the Fredkin-Wolfram idea, can a theory actually give quantitative, or at least qualitative, predictions that eventually turn out to be correct? Is a black hole a Fredkin-Wolfram information process that possesses ultra-weirdness beyond quantum weirdness? Is there some bizarre, empirically correct prediction that can actually reveal the Fredkin-Wolfram information process?