(May 18, 2025 at 12:37 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(May 17, 2025 at 10:26 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: The question that needs to be asked is if information follows the same laws as the physical world and if there are any additional rules that might change the behaviours. A computer is pretty inert until it's fed just the right pattern of information. If we view the mind similarly, then it's reaction to external information might not be expected to conform to physical laws.
I like that you bring up information, because I do lean heavily in the direction of informational realism. I view all reality as fundamentally informational, so that things like matter arise from informational structures and informational states.
So if I were to give a rough description of how I interpret reality, I would argue it goes something like this:
1. Information is the foundation.
2. Integrated information creates consciousness.
3. Consciousness abstracts or instantiates the physical world from information.
That works reasonably well for the perceptory reality that exists inside of our heads. The information still needs somewhere to live, a physical medium.
think that humans may represent a very strange case where the information in our heads has hijacked the system that was originally built by the information in our DNA. Four billion years of replication and evolution just to get it all smashed by some meme complex with delusions of grandeur.
