Information

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Information is the fundamental building block of reality, not just a descriptor of it.

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It is the active, computational substrate from which life, matter, and spacetime emerge.

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Life is an information condenser: it structures, preserves, and processes information across time and space.

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In this sense, information is both the code and the computation— simultaneously the “software” (logical rules) and “hardware” (spacetime structure) of the universe.