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by softatlas 4440 days ago

    The rate of information increases.
Hence why

    Information wants to be free.
Parasitic on

    Only information explains its own existence.
Which all, I think, intuitively follows from Spinozist/Cartesian "Conatus" principle. That is to say:

    The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.
Some of us rave about this or that: "well, how many folk use X today" or "qualify as X" or "subscribe to X". But these expressions are all within the scope of multiply converging nexuses of increasing correlative potentia. The coffee cup is a simple example — so like Wittgenstein's point: "if a lion could speak, we could not understand him". The lion, like the cup, has restricted correlative powers: these laws apply, these others do not.

The laws of information are laws about the dimensions of proportionality, which give the arrow of time an aspect of curvature (needing to exhaust a universe for exponentially narrowing arrows, so the onion-skinning of properties of a thing "come way may" at "frozen" temporal localities — what happens when we "bend" time at certain family resemblance (physical) properties?).

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I have the sense there is something you are trying to say, but I cannot know what the dimensions of proportionality can be. I can see why you assign frozen temporal localities to property assignment but I think there is some confusion in your argument between information as perceived and information as signaled.