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First, attempt to imagine information in a complete void. No space, no energy. On what is that information coded? You have to pick something. Now, it doesn'
by at_a_remove 5y ago
First, attempt to imagine information in a complete void. No space, no energy. On what is that information coded?
You have to pick something. Now, it doesn't have to be self-propagating packets of electromagnetic waves, but whatever you pick will be that universe's equivalent of light.
- avmich 5y agoWe can be imaginative and declare that the whole universe has "states", and those states are different. The whole universe encodes states - without anything in the universe required to exist. For example, "laws" of universe depend on states. Frankly, we are not required to have time there.
- at_a_remove 5y agoIf you can talk about it, and you can say that they are different, they exist.
- avmich 5y agoI'm trying to imagine information without a material carrier. I'm sure it's a philosophical question by now.