Everything is Code. One of the most astonishing
revelations might be that information equals
reality. In other words, the basis for our
material reality is actually immaterial information.
Pattern and flow of information is what defines
our experiential reality.
Everything boils down to the binary Code of
Nature. This is a basic tenet of Digital Physics
which is the science of information. Nature
computes. Deep down we are information technology.
We run on genetic, neural and societal codes.
Our DNA-based biology is clearly code-theoretic.
We are alphabetic all the way down. We communicate
intersubjectively mind-to-mind via language-structured
exchange of information.
A recent study shows that human speech is
transmitted at about 39 bits a sec. Idealist
philosopher Terence McKenna used to say that
"The world is made of language and if you
know the words the world is made of you can
make of it whatever you wish."
As human beings we are endowed with self-reflective
consciousness. Phenomenological consciousness
can be viewed as reverberating holistic feedback
loops and meta-algorithmic information processing.
That's how information feels like to itself,
to one's emergent mind. Information can be
loosely defined as distinction between things.
In his 1948 seminal paper "Information Theory
of Communication" Claude Shannon suggested
that "Information is the resolution of uncertainty."
In the 1980s, physicist John Wheeler coined
the phrase "It from bit" and cyberneticist
Gregory Bateson lucidified it by saying "Information
is a difference that makes a difference."
Physical reality is our base reality and we
have no choice but to treat it that way. At
the same time, we should understand that it’s
not the only reality and ours is most probably
only one of many in the honeycomb of infinitude
of other "in"-formational realities.
Computational thinking entails the notion
that the entire Universe is the ultimate quantum
computer. Most physicists now agree that information
is the most fundamental property of our Universe
- Not space-time, not matter-energy but strings
of 0s and 1s. From the Matrix of our daily
lives to Apotheosis of the Universal Mind,
it's all about consciousness and information
that are the two sides of the same coin. That's
what tickles my brain every single day!
