For more than a century, physics has revealed cracks in the matter-first worldview. Quantum mechanics, black holes, and cosmology all suggest that our familiar universe of particles and forces is not the whole story. Meanwhile, biology, culture, and consciousness hint at patterns of coherence that resist reduction to atoms and equations.
It From Us - An Information-first Framework and the Purpose of Consciousness by Ryan Kralik, the book at the center of this conversation, offers a bold new framework: information is the substrate of reality. Matter and mind both emerge from the same underlying code. Coherence — not chance — is the force that draws particles into atoms, atoms into stars, people into cultures, and cultures into civilizations.
Ryan Kralik is a writer and researcher exploring the intersections of physics, anomalies, civilization and culture. He is the managing editor of Aperture Magazine, the official publication of the International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA).
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