Information Principle: Context as the Foundation of Reality
Information Principle: Context as the Foundation of Reality By John Gavel The Core Principle The Information Principle: A difference becomes information only within a contextual structure that renders it coherent and distinguishable. Without this relational context, difference remains unanchored and non-informative. Context is not secondary.. it is the enabling ground of informational reality. While John Wheeler's famous "it from bit" hypothesis suggests that physical reality emerges from binary information units, this formulation overlooks a critical foundation, context. Wheeler treats binary choices as fundamental building blocks, but fails to address what makes these choices meaningful in the first place. The Information Principle reveals a deeper truth.. before we can have meaningful "bits," we must have the contextual framework that allows differences to be coherently distinguished. Raw difference without context is not information — it's merely potent...