Food Rearranged

It’s about information patterns — physical substrate-independent patterns — which have emergent properties above and beyond the physics of the fundamental articles. The whole story in a nutshell. He uses the expression “we call it” — when talking about different types of “stuff” — not so arrogant as to call these definitions. We call stuff Solid, Liquid, Gas so why not also Memory, Computronium and Perceptronium.

A man after my own — also reacts to the adjective “just” — as in we are “just” a bunch of quarks and photons. We are food rearranged. We are a bunch of physics with a particular history of dynamic patterns of information. Seems like the same old dualist question, but not a question what we need to “add” to physics — but what what are the physical properties of the patterns in physics? It’s the (information) patterns that matter. “Matter” — think on.

So that’s Dan Dennett, Anil Seth and Max Tegmark talking sense. Will have to watch that again, and get his book after all. Onward and upward.

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