I don't think it's the amount of information that we crave. Traditional japanese living spaces would compress well, yet they look like personal, interesting pla

I don't think it's the amount of information that we crave. Traditional japanese living spaces would compress well, yet they look like personal, interesting places to inhabit. Conversely, a messy manufactured home is information rich, but I don't think it would quench your 'thirst' in the same way. I think it's meaning we crave, and if we can get it with a better signal to noise ratio, that's more peace of mind for us. That said, the 'noise' in the shape and texture of natural materials compresses away as generic texture. I think we have evolved to interpret that effortlessly in hardware. The noise of a waterfall can give us peace while the noise of traffic usually has the opposite effect. More interestingly, we can selectively turn off this mechanism to appreciate natural shapes and textures in their full depth. A tree can be very information rich if we direct our attention to it, while at the same time it's easy to filter it out as 'ok, tree here' without further anxiety. A landscape typically has a lot of information in it, but if we can find a pattern that summarizes its overall shape, its beauty just hits us as something really simple, without need for intense attention or effort in interpretation.