If you accept the physicalist stance that matter and information are indistinguishable the clouds begin to lift.
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A great book to read is ‘Case Against Reality’ by Douglas Hoffman. He argues that spacetime is an interface we evolved and is information, not actually reality.
I enjoy Hoffman but remain steadfast in my belief that perception, even as a derived property of reality, remains tethered to the inputs which cause it.
Bit of a tangent but Wolfram argues that merging the ideas of space and time into spacetime was a mistake by Minkowski. It was convenient for the math but he claims they’re fundamentally distinct:
This might be a better article on that topic: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-really/
Thanks for sharing. This is a good one.