The problem might go all the up to the notion of correspondence to reality itself. There’s no simple way of stating that we’re accessing reality without that also constituting a representation.
Your mutual information is between representations coming from one part of your mind to other parts; likewise what is considered “accurate” information about reality is really just accuracy relative to some idealized set of expectations from some other model that would take the photos as evidence.
The problem might go all the up to the notion of correspondence to reality itself. There’s no simple way of stating that we’re accessing reality without that also constituting a representation.
Your mutual information is between representations coming from one part of your mind to other parts; likewise what is considered “accurate” information about reality is really just accuracy relative to some idealized set of expectations from some other model that would take the photos as evidence.