(May 18, 2025 at 10:26 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(May 18, 2025 at 8:51 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Consciousness extracts information, but it does not imbue it...
Right, the implication there is that information exists. It does not need to be perceived to exist. It is a real part of the universe, and I would argue its most fundamental part.
No perception is needed for those patterns to keep unfolding. There is an objective Universe aside from our own understanding, that it be here whether or not we are. The Universe existed billions of years before consciousness as we know it arose. Indeed, it led to us.
To paraphrase Freeman Dyson, "We are the Universe, pondering itself." We just happen to sit in the catbird seat.
