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By: Kaleb S. (GravitationalInfo)
The Total Information Environment (TIE) is a framework for understanding reality as a single, interconnected information system. Starting with electricity, as a common frame of reference, this post will discuss the behavior of information across the looping nature of entropy. From the maximum entropy/compression of a black hole to the unpredictability of quantum superposition. I argue that lossy embedding is not a flaw in how systems interact, rather it's the fundamental mechanism by which they do.
Electricity
Let's start with a base of reference, Electricity. Arguably one of the most monumental discoveries ever made. Why is it so powerful? Entropy.
Entropy is the measure of disorder or unavailable energy in a system. Electricity, specifically its voltage and electric field, contains energy with low entropy and a high potential to do work,high negentropy (Brillouin, 1953), the opposite of entropy. The natural tendency of any system is to go towards higher entropy (higher disorder). Consider an analogy: The tendency of a system to go towards higher entropy is similar to how AI creates relationships between tokens, creating a relationship between two similar tokens is never a clean relationship, rather it is considered lossy, a lossy embedding. Some information is always lost in translation. Entropy is information being combined and split into alternate forms.
Maximum Entropy
Let's take this lossy information embedding concept to its logical extreme. So what do you get when entropy/information configurations are so dense that a 3-Dimensional information configuration is compressed into 2-Dimensional? A Blackhole. Maximum entropy/maximum chaos, to the point that it looks completely still, this could be the limit of lossy embeddings. The holographic principle ('t Hooft, 1993; Susskind, 1995; Bousso, 2002) holds that maximum information density for any volume of space is encoded not in that volume but on its boundary surface. What leaks out at the boundary is Hawking Radiation (Hawking, 1975), furthering the concept, could be the information leaking out of the compression, not to what the universe knew it as but rather a fragmented conglomeration of pieces of information compressed to the extreme.
Minimum Entropy
Now for the other end of the logical extreme, or rather, loop. Minimum entropy, looking at the smallest pieces of information, where particles are defined by their abstract states rather than properties. States of superposition, where outcomes are fluid before becoming discrete. But the catch, the act of observing these stateful pieces of information is a lossy embedding in and of itself, collapsing the superposition. The observer effect is not outside of the system, rather it is two information-carrying systems interacting with one another. Every observation is a lossy compression of the system being observed, shaped by the structure of the observer doing the observing.
Datagrams
Information is infinitely recurring, absolute zero is unreachable, superposition is always collapsing into new states, and every observation generates an informational residue on the system, the perfect compression of a system is structurally impossible, it always continues. The practical alternative would be to work with packets. This is not a failure of measurement. Rather, it is a recognition that lossy compression of any information-carrying system, even the human mind, actually navigates reality.
Conclusion
The Total Information Environment is entirely interconnected and yet separate, we affect things in a lossy embedding of information translation. The universe does not lose information, it transforms it, always and imperfectly forward. The end is never the end.
References
Brillouin, L. (1953). Negentropy Principle of Information. Journal of Applied Physics, 24(9), 1152–1163.
Bousso, R. (2002). The holographic principle. Reviews of Modern Physics, 74(3), 825–874.
Hawking, S. W. (1975). Particle creation by black holes. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 43(3), 199–220.
't Hooft, G. (1993). Dimensional reduction in quantum gravity. arXiv:gr-qc/9310026.
Susskind, L. (1995). The world as a hologram. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 36(11), 6377–6396.
By: Kaleb S. (GravitationalInfo)
The Total Information Environment (TIE) is a framework for understanding reality as a single, interconnected information system. Starting with electricity, as a common frame of reference, this post will discuss the behavior of information across the looping nature of entropy. From the maximum entropy/compression of a black hole to the unpredictability of quantum superposition. I argue that lossy embedding is not a flaw in how systems interact, rather it's the fundamental mechanism by which they do.
Electricity
Let's start with a base of reference, Electricity. Arguably one of the most monumental discoveries ever made. Why is it so powerful? Entropy.
Entropy is the measure of disorder or unavailable energy in a system. Electricity, specifically its voltage and electric field, contains energy with low entropy and a high potential to do work, high negentropy (Brillouin, 1953), the opposite of entropy. The natural tendency of any system is to go towards higher entropy (higher disorder). Consider an analogy: The tendency of a system to go towards higher entropy is similar to how AI creates relationships between tokens, creating a relationship between two similar tokens is never a clean relationship, rather it is considered lossy, a lossy embedding. Some information is always lost in translation. Entropy is information being combined and split into alternate forms.
Maximum Entropy
Let's take this lossy information embedding concept to its logical extreme. So what do you get when entropy/information configurations are so dense that a 3-Dimensional information configuration is compressed into 2-Dimensional? A Blackhole. Maximum entropy/maximum chaos, to the point that it looks completely still, this could be the limit of lossy embeddings. The holographic principle ('t Hooft, 1993; Susskind, 1995; Bousso, 2002) holds that maximum information density for any volume of space is encoded not in that volume but on its boundary surface. What leaks out at the boundary is Hawking Radiation (Hawking, 1975), furthering the concept, could be the information leaking out of the compression, not to what the universe knew it as but rather a fragmented conglomeration of pieces of information compressed to the extreme.
Minimum Entropy
Now for the other end of the logical extreme, or rather, loop. Minimum entropy, looking at the smallest pieces of information, where particles are defined by their abstract states rather than properties. States of superposition, where outcomes are fluid before becoming discrete. But the catch, the act of observing these stateful pieces of information is a lossy embedding in and of itself, collapsing the superposition. The observer effect is not outside of the system, rather it is two information-carrying systems interacting with one another. Every observation is a lossy compression of the system being observed, shaped by the structure of the observer doing the observing.
Datagrams
Information is infinitely recurring, absolute zero is unreachable, superposition is always collapsing into new states, and every observation generates an informational residue on the system, the perfect compression of a system is structurally impossible, it always continues. The practical alternative would be to work with packets. This is not a failure of measurement. Rather, it is a recognition that lossy compression of any information-carrying system, even the human mind, actually navigates reality.
Conclusion
The Total Information Environment is entirely interconnected and yet separate, we affect things in a lossy embedding of information translation. The universe does not lose information, it transforms it, always and imperfectly forward. The end is never the end.
References
Brillouin, L. (1953). Negentropy Principle of Information. Journal of Applied Physics, 24(9), 1152–1163.
Bousso, R. (2002). The holographic principle. Reviews of Modern Physics, 74(3), 825–874.
Hawking, S. W. (1975). Particle creation by black holes. Communications in Mathematical Physics, 43(3), 199–220.
't Hooft, G. (1993). Dimensional reduction in quantum gravity. arXiv:gr-qc/9310026.
Susskind, L. (1995). The world as a hologram. Journal of Mathematical Physics, 36(11), 6377–6396.