Why Information Grows — Remains of the Day

Information is something that creates new realities by connecting different points into a network.

Humans are special animals when it comes to information, because unlike other species, we have developed an enormous ability to encode large volumes of information outside our bodies. Naively, we can think of this information as the information we encode in books, sheet music, audio recordings, and video. Yet for longer than we have been able to wr

In an era when “cultivated” people purport to care so much about the origins of the stuff they put into their mouths, will they be as cautious with the stuff they put into their minds? Will they be able to resist the information sausage meat that AI is about to serve them?

— Brian Eno

For information to truly grow, the universe needs one more trick. This is the ability of matter to process information, or the ability of matter to compute.