Have We Gone Far Enough or is the World Crazier Still

9 Have We Gone Far Enough or is the World Crazier Still  

Fredkiii s universe is a universe in which there is only a finite amount of information and, for want of a better or more suggestive metaphor, is thought to evolve according to some underlying local CA rule. While the information content of the universe is assumed to be finite, it is also tacitly assumed that all of that information resides on an underlying lattice, whose own existence comes, so to speak, free-of-charge. This underlying lattice supplies an arena for an informational dynamics to take place in, but, except for its role as dynamical mediator, it itself remains effectively uninvolved in that dynamics. Clusters of information may form and dissipate and all sorts of interactions may take place within it, but the lattice remains separate and fixed. 

An intriguing possibility thus presents itself. If some kind of a primordial information, and not higher-level constructs such as mass, energy, spin, and so forth, is indeed the real substance out of which all stuff is made - leaving aside for the moment, the question of form of that information - is it not natural to suppose that a discrete space-time structure, our heretofore pre-defined and static dynamical mediator, is itself built out of the same substance i.e. to suppose that space-time is not just a backdrop for information processing, there only to define what is local and what is not and where to and where from information is allowed to flow, but is itself a construct of primordial information This supposition is not entirely without precedent. 

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