Existence And Information

Each thing exists only as relative to other things, red exists only as relative to green and to blue, etc. This applies to language but also to any reality that language references. Each thing has a possible opposite, and in some cases an ideal opposite which doesn't exist in reality, but does theoretically, created as a manifestation from its extant opposite and other relatives; red might be close to orange for example, both far from green, even if red doesn't exist, its explicit concept would exist in theory, a perfect "ghost" of reality.

This means that existence becomes more lucid as more things are created and defined, as this creates a palette, more forms of relative reference. As things in the past remain as a memory, then the lucidity of existence becomes greater over time, although meaning might also disintegrate over time, as things are forgotten to history; which poses the question - are new things, even new concepts or definitions, created faster than old things are forgotten? The answer must favour creation, because we are here and the universe seems more complex now than it was in the past.

This poses another question, is there more information in the universe now than before, or less? Or the same? There is more complexity, certainly.

This asks, what is information? Also, in an equation that expands to define something, is the information for the thing encapsulated in the equation, or not? If so then the definition of information is "everything" - as all things stem and stemmed from the starting conditions of the universe. If not then the equation is either exactly equivalent to the thing it creates, although that would create two identical pieces of information and two identical things are one thing, so again the definition of information is "everything". Or the equation and the thing it expands into are two separate pieces of information, different from each other in more than just viewpoint, thus by translating a definition into reality, some change, and so some inaccuracy is essential.

The nature of information is vital to the nature of reality. As order moves to disorder, information is lost, but as simplicity moves to complexity information is gained. These forces both act over time. Do their competing effects cancel each other out?

Perhaps truth is a question of locality. Truth might be total at some scale large or small, but be more malleable at the opposing range. In fact, as two identical things are one thing, even two alternative representations of one same thing, then appearance of identicality can only be preserved at a sufficiently large range for communication, for perfect verification of identicalty to be impossible.

Mark Sheeky, 27 June 2014