How Information Shapes Reality: From CRISPR to Physics' Holy Grail

In the near future humans may sit at a screen, type, and output life; all that is needed is proper translation and output, continuously converting previous stage content into the next stage's understandable form, holding the right key to connect everything.

Yet virtual and real have never had boundaries; boundaries are walls of the mediocre; all things share a common origin, so no insurmountable line exists.

The discrepancy between perception and reality has existed since life began; information collection depends on the types and performance of our reception systems; lacking a type or having insufficient performance causes loss of related content, even when present.

In special cases, errors in receivers, transmitters, or decoders can grant extra rewards—mistakes—allowing glimpses of things that do not exist, yet existence itself is another deep topic.

Humans as containers constantly collect; whatever is collected, right or wrong, undergoes repeated decomposition and recombination, producing differentiated structures, which are proof of all things.

Differentiated structures live within differentiated hierarchies; a hierarchy is itself a kind of structure; when one level's structure can explain another's, they connect; alternatively, when a structure spawns a higher‑level structure, new hierarchies emerge.

Without the key to the shortest connection path, one must traverse many levels, a long thorny road; information is lost or corrupted during translation between levels, leaving scars.

The sought‑after Holy Grail would let humanity glimpse the origin of all things; perhaps at that moment only one level and one structure exist, after which the Tower of Babel falls.

Note 1: Biohackers now use CRISPR to edit genomes; while still limited, the dream of manipulating life may become commonplace, e.g., "one‑click pattern change" for a pet cat.

Note 2: Mastering communication across levels enables building connections through multiple translations, akin to using a particle accelerator to control particles at the microscopic level.

Note 3: The term "key" borrows from cryptography, extending beyond encryption to any template that facilitates information flow across levels.

Note 4: Connecting and controlling have always been human goals; if all keys were held, everything could be linked and controlled, yet we would not become gods.

Note 5: Technological advances like VR/AR spark debates about virtual‑real boundaries; historically, shamans used hallucinogens similarly, perturbing information reception to access "outside" data.

Note 6: Humans create boundaries for incomprehensible phenomena, e.g., medieval sailors imagined a world edge leading to a waterfall.

Note 7: Walls metaphorically represent artificially erected boundaries (nation, gender, etc.); wise individuals can ignore them to reach essence.

Note 8: In the Planck epoch (0‑10⁻⁴³ s) the four fundamental forces were unified, reflecting a common origin.

Note 9: Human vision is an information‑receiving system.

Note 10: Blindness, color blindness, and limits of normal vision illustrate incomplete perception.

Note 11: Earth receives about 6.5×10¹¹ solar neutrinos per cm² per second, yet we cannot sense them; detectors are still exploratory.

Note 12: Distinguish illusion (extra processing) from error (random mutation beyond plan).

Note 13: Certain neurological conditions produce perceptions unlike typical experience, e.g., cinematographic vision.

Note 14: Existence is derived from observation, not mere "what you see is what you get."

Note 15: Humans are containers of information; consciousness emerges from accumulated information.

Note 16: Right/wrong is relative, determined by environment; at lower levels information is just 0s and 1s.

Note 17: All processing can be decomposed and recombined; no information is destroyed or created.

Note 18: Anything can be structured into finer or more complex forms; understanding starts with structure.

Note 19: John Wheeler's "It from bit" idea: information lacks meaning itself; meaning resides in the structure it describes, expressed at another level.

Note 20: Structure and hierarchy are two sides of the same coin.

Note 21: Hierarchy is a special structure; meta‑mathematics exemplifies layers describing layers, potentially looping like Ouroboros.

Note 22: Understanding structure is the first step to connection; second is establishing descriptive relations between levels.

Note 23: Culture is a new level born from humanity, surpassing biological evolution; it evolves independently.

Note 24: Like the telephone game, information degrades; finding the shortest transmission path is crucial.

Note 25: The Holy Grail metaphor originates from Arthurian legend and represents the quest for a Theory of Everything, such as string theory or loop quantum gravity.

Note 26: Laozi's Dao De Jing: "Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things" – the Dao is the initial structure.

Note 27: The biblical Tower of Babel story illustrates the collapse of a single unified structure into many languages, analogous to post‑Big‑Bang diversification.