 Meaning is an emergent aspect of computation: Science is our best effort to develop a valid objective theoretical description of the universe based on intersubjectively verifiable repeated observations. Science tells us that our reality at a small scale consists of elementary particles whose behavior is described by exact mathematical models. At an elementary level these particles interact and exchange information. These processes are essentially computational. At this most basic level of description there is no room for a subjective notion of meaning. There is no reason to deny that we as human being experience a meaningful world, but as such this must be an emergent aspect of nature. At a fundamental level it does not exist. We can describe our universe as a big quantum computer. We can estimate the information storage content of our universe to be \(10^{92}\) bits and the number of computational steps it made since the big bang as \(10^{123}\) (Lloyd 2000; Lloyd &amp; Ng 2004). As human beings we are just subsystems of the universe with an estimated complexity of roughly \(10^{30}\) bits. It might be technically impossible, but there seems to be no theoretical objection against the idea that we can in principle construct an exact copy of a human being, either as a direct physical copy or as a simulation in a computer. Such an “artificial” person will experience a meaningful world, but the experience will be emergent. 