The basic idea seem to me interesting and true, but I think some important ingredients are missing, or more likely missing in my understanding of what you say:
It seem like you upper-bound the abstractions we may use by basically the information that we may access (actually even higher, assuming you do not exclude what the neighbour does behind closed doors). But isn’t this bound very loose? I mean, it seem like every pixel of my sight count as “information at a distance”, and my world model is much much smaller.
is time treated the like space? From the one hand it seem like it have to if we want to abstract colour from sequence of amplitudes, but it also feels meaningfully different.
is the punch to define objects as blankets with much more information inside than may be viewed from far outside?
the part where all the information that may be lost in the next layer is assumed to already been lost, seen to assume symmetries—are those explicit part of the project?
in practice, there seem to be information loss and practically-indeterminism in all scales. E.g. when i go further from a picture i keep losing details. Wouldn’t it make more sense to talk about how far (in orders of magnitude) information travel rather than saying that n either does it does not go to infinity?
The basic idea seem to me interesting and true, but I think some important ingredients are missing, or more likely missing in my understanding of what you say:
It seem like you upper-bound the abstractions we may use by basically the information that we may access (actually even higher, assuming you do not exclude what the neighbour does behind closed doors). But isn’t this bound very loose? I mean, it seem like every pixel of my sight count as “information at a distance”, and my world model is much much smaller.
is time treated the like space? From the one hand it seem like it have to if we want to abstract colour from sequence of amplitudes, but it also feels meaningfully different.
is the punch to define objects as blankets with much more information inside than may be viewed from far outside?
the part where all the information that may be lost in the next layer is assumed to already been lost, seen to assume symmetries—are those explicit part of the project?
in practice, there seem to be information loss and practically-indeterminism in all scales. E.g. when i go further from a picture i keep losing details. Wouldn’t it make more sense to talk about how far (in orders of magnitude) information travel rather than saying that n either does it does not go to infinity?
Sorry about my English, hope it was clear enough