"The Newton law of gravitation is based on an instantaneous propagation of gravity, and the Newtonian equations for the solar system, for example, work rather well, except for the anomalous perihelion of the planet Mercury. General relativity explains this aberration. In taking into account the retarded gravitational potential in the Newtonian equation, the equation of general relativity is obtained in introducing anticipative propagation of the gravitational field. "
http://www.mindspring.com/~cerebroscopic/Dubois.html
So what this means basically, is that general relativity is derived from Newtonian gravity, and that in an information view of things, objects are computing their next state with the equations of gravity itself. So to say, the objects consist of the equations of gravity, and the particular values they have for the variables, past, present and future. The objects are information computing units.
Now what is the origin of the particular values of the variables? Note how anticipation is a time principle, it is instantaneous. The origin of the values come from a decision for every step in time, which freedom still obeys the conservation of properties.