If information is fundamental, then it could be inhabitable and consumable.

I don’t post much on the UFO topic any more, but I do keep an eye from a safe distance.

I do still find myself still considering the more abstract edges of the subject, especially when they dip into areas challenging our fundamental beliefs and assumptions about the requirements for autonomous life to exist.

Looking through the five limited sensors of our meat bag experience it’s easy to see how we only consider existence from our own perspective, but as we stumble into the little-g god realm of AI development, I believe we are rediscovering an ecology that was always there, one of pure information and probability that doesn’t suffer from the physical collapse induced by observation.

Many know of the high-absurdity/strangeness factors associated with reported interactions, but that is more of a societal norm-driven conclusion that can vary from culture to culture, what is ‘weird’ in one culture may be perfectly accepted in another. It’s only strange if it doesn’t agree with a predetermined cultural template.

What does stand out to me, is the potential for life to exist and even feed off of a fundamental ecosystem of information, fed into and ever-expanding (accelerating universal expansion) by the experiences of many conscious agents. In a world of non-collapsed probabilities, of raw information, life would seem, to us, insanely chaotic, but it may be home to an immense swath of expressions of life.

In many cultures this would be considered the ‘spirit’ world, but along with Mr. Valles, I think this is the information biosphere, and it’s full of life, including us.