is reality binary

[sushi]

is reality made of binary stuff/digital code

reality seems to be have information encoded in its nature. the past is made of information, otherwise how we remember events. when we write and observe the past, it becomes information. space and time could have an information dimensionn.

when one observe reality and change , one recieve information, .

therefore it could imply the nature of reality is digital and binary,rather than just our brain remembering things and playing tricks,.

it is not a strong hypothesis but it is one of the things i am thinking.

 

[Cognisant]

Spoiler

Generally as we understand things we're able to break them down into simpler parts and/or mechanisms and so it's an easy assumption that as we get closer to understanding the fundamental nature of reality that we should find some simple set of rules from which all complexity has emerged, like how the complexity of biochemistry has emerged from the way the elements of the relatively simple periodic table interact.

And then there's quantum physics... it can't be truly random, order isn't an emergent property of randomness because then by definition the randomness wouldn't be truly random so either reality is simulated and whoever made the simulation is just fucking with us or it isn't random it just appears to be because there's a lot going on.

Imagine trying to make a map of a city just by the photos on social media, with a few dozen photos you simply don't have enough information to come to any meaningful conclusions, with a few thousand photos you'll start seeing landmarks from different perspectives and from those you can begin to map the area around them and their locations relative to each other, with a few million photos you could get something approximating a street map, with a few billion you would have an equivalent to Google maps street view which would make the map making easy.

With quantum physics we're apparently still at the few dozen photos stage.

 

[Daddy]

I don't think reality makes enough sense to say absolutely because everything is cause and effect, yet every effect transforms into a new cause and every cause has an effect that begets it. Reality would then have no beginning or end, more simply being an eternal experience of the present moment continuously feeding in on itself. And in that light, its built-in rules could change with the present.

Though I suppose it could be argued that there could still be an underlying pattern to how the rules of reality might change in the present. But take Pi - you could represent it with an infinite series; but to know the digits of Pi and to see its realized expression, you must calculate each digit in the moment for an infinite amount of time. Maybe that's reality - an irrational pattern. And maybe because of this, anything is possible given enough time, knowledge, and ability.

 

[Ex-User (14663)]

I think one has to distinguish between reality and our models of reality. Some scientist seem to believe those are the same, but I think such a belief requires a bit of hubris.

Pi was mentioned - eg if you’re doing quantum mechanics you would make extensive use of pi to model reality (inside wave functions etc). You can approximate pi up to arbitrary precision via binary code, given enough time and storage space, but indeed you would need infinite amount of time and space to calculate it exactly. So either there is no such thing as a pi, or it doesn’t make sense to think of reality as a computer

My opinion is that the current situation is similar to when people only knew of fire and water so they reasoned everything must be made from fire and water. Now we’re in the computer age so naturally we reckon everything is made from binary digits