Pure Information

[The Sum of Awe]

Is existence is just pure information? Having no concrete form, only abstract information. In the same way numbers themselves are concepts describing a value and other than its symbol has no concrete form of existence.


All of this we interact with seems concrete to us, but in truth consciousness is merely the scanning of this information, and the way we experience the world is just how it is read out or processed.


Now this is far different from what I believe, but I wouldn't say it is mutually exclusive from my beliefs. I'm not claiming to believe it or if it holds any truth at all. This is just a thought experiment.

 

[Sees]

I think reality is a bit like that, we are just getting a very limited scan from a certain perspective of all the information there is.

 

[psychoslice]

To me its like enjoying a big piece of cake, but instead of just enjoying it we pull it to pieces , being more concern with what the cake is made of than the taste.

 

[Ouroboros]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2014/04/is-information-fundamental/

 

[Straw Dog]

Is existence is just pure information? Having no concrete form, only abstract information. In the same way numbers themselves are concepts describing a value and other than its symbol has no concrete form of existence.

Well, I'm skeptical of 'pure' anything, but sometimes I entertain a variation of this thought experiment. It's not about purity so much as the vastness of information. It's like white noise: not the absence of sound, but an excess. It's not that information is really random or disorderly, but rather represents structural complexity and contingency. There are only so many ways in which the human mind can process this vastness in such a way as to render it meaningful relative to the human condition. There may always be a place in any particular perspective for mystery.

 

[Harvey Meale]

I don't think we could define it as "pure information". Pure data might be closer to the mark but I still think there's no benefit to thinking of the world in this manner.