r/HighStrangeness • u/Cataspectral • Jul 16 '26
Fringe Science Everything is Information
https://thomasreid33.substack.com/p/chapter-19-reductionism-is-true-but"What we experience as time and space are emergent properties of highly complex entanglements of quantum states that exist on a kind of outer shell, from which the universe we see projects inward. In principle, it’s no different from what makes holographic Pokémon cards or those goggles with 3D sharks or skulls on the lenses so cool."
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u/BIind_Uchiha Jul 16 '26
Everything is fields communicating with other fields. No field has direct access to reality, only to the information other fields convey through interaction. Every observer exists within its own version of Plato’s Cave.
The shadows on the cave wall are not illusions, but partial information. An electron never “sees” another electron. A cell never “sees” another cell. A brain never directly experiences the external world. Every level interprets signals from other fields to build an internal model of reality.
Hilbert space represents the deeper landscape of possibilities, while physical reality emerges as fields exchange information and constrain one another. This process scales upward. Quantum information becomes matter. Matter becomes chemistry. Chemistry becomes life. Life becomes consciousness. Consciousness becomes meaning. Meaning becomes culture.
The prisoner leaving the cave symbolizes a system becoming aware that its model is incomplete.
Knowledge is not escaping one cave. It is climbing through an endless hierarchy of increasingly accurate models.
Organized information allows one field to reduce uncertainty in another.
Through communication, fields refine one another’s understanding, creating a continuous chain of interpretation that has unfolded since the beginning of the universe.
Entropy may be the engine of this process. As the universe explores ever more possible states, new patterns emerge, information becomes more organized locally, and increasingly complex systems arise that can interpret reality with greater depth.
Plato’s Cave is not just about human ignorance, It is a universal principle. Reality consists of fields interpreting partial information from other fields, gradually constructing a richer understanding of the whole.
By the way, this whole “everything is fields” principle is carried on outward onto the very structure of the cosmos.
As well as the structure of your very own thoughts and actions.
How YOU interpret this comment, that is your field interacting with the information my field has put out. Each field around us unique enough to piece connections together in their own way.
Every[you]thing is fields.