Timothy Speed (2025)
In contemporary physics, information-theoretic concepts are increasingly used as if information were an indimergent and additive quantity—that is, as if it could exist independently of world-integration, remain globally conserved, and be summed across the universe. This implicit assumption underlies claims such as “information is never lost,” computation-based cosmologies, and simulation-theoretic ontologies.
This paper argues that this constitutes a categorical overextension. Within the MNO approach (Minimal-Non-Object), information is reclassified as a response quantity: it arises exclusively where difference is emergent and stably integrated into world-relations. Information is world-capable only insofar as it is able to sustain stable, relational reality and remain causally effective within a shared world. Information may remain formally conserved without possessing this world-capability.
This paper functions as an interface text within a larger operator-based research corpus. Core concepts are applied here, not re-derived. The underlying research operates in a non-linear, rhythmically recursive epistemic mode grounded in an autistic form of structural perception; the present text provides an interface translation for academic contexts.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18045445
Keywords: information theory, emergence, world-integration, response quantity, ontology of information, black hole information paradox, quantum measurement problem
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