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A philosopher's psychedelic encounter with reality
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Importance of Perception
I have no problem with some version of the so-called it from bit thesis that the world is potentially best understandable, but as the totality of units of information. And that seems to me perfectly likely and indeed I think one way of understanding the long journey transition that we've been undergoing since the 19th century. We're moving right now and at an ever more rapid pace from particle physics as the basis of reality to something more like information theory. The queen of the sciences has been deposed. Physics is being replaced by informatics, right? Without knowing it, without understanding that that's what they're actually doing.
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