The universe is fundamentally made of potential, not information.
Information is the removal of uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty, it is not information. Information is state resolve, constructive and destructive interference collapse into state (information, contextually) in the “moment of now” (whichever moment evaluated.)
You have an interesting and worthwhile curiosity towards communication and compression, however I will say “everything is about” is nothing of the sort.
Everything is potential distributing over the infinite surface area of negative potential (/ information). We call this “entropy.”
Everything is “about” conservation and capacity (because we intend to burn it) of potential. Whatever potential is necessary at that moment.
So everything is about burning what potential we have wisely, and compression is one way of framing that requirement.
We are naturally lazy and ambivalent and will take up as much time and bandwidth as is pleasurable.
Information is the removal of uncertainty. If it does not remove uncertainty, it is not information. Information is state resolve, constructive and destructive interference collapse into state (information, contextually) in the “moment of now” (whichever moment evaluated.)
You have an interesting and worthwhile curiosity towards communication and compression, however I will say “everything is about” is nothing of the sort.
Everything is potential distributing over the infinite surface area of negative potential (/ information). We call this “entropy.”
Everything is “about” conservation and capacity (because we intend to burn it) of potential. Whatever potential is necessary at that moment.
So everything is about burning what potential we have wisely, and compression is one way of framing that requirement.
We are naturally lazy and ambivalent and will take up as much time and bandwidth as is pleasurable.