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by stevenhuang 910 days ago
The real world is informational. If the world is truly random and devoid of information, you wouldn't exist.
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Information is a loaded word. Sure, you can say that based on our physical theories, you can think of the world that way, but information is what's meaningful to us amongst all the noise of the world. Meaningful for goals like survival and reproduction from our ancestors. Nervous systems evolved to help animals decide what's important to focus on. It's not a premade data set, the brain makes it meaningful in context of it's environment.