The universe is not a container of things; it is a computation. The laws of physics are not its rules; they are its most stable outputs. The Autaxys Framework—from the Greek *auto* (self) and *taxis* (arrangement)—proposes that reality is the unfolding solution to a cosmic optimization problem, executed by a single, self-generating program. The search for a Theory of Everything is therefore the search for this program's source code: the maximally parsimonious principles that give rise to a universe.