Time and information
It feels as though the total amount of information available is ever increasing.
But I wonder if that isn’t humans doing two things;
1. Discovering the universe and giving names to things that already exist, and
2. Creating useless junk information.
In science and technology we distinguish between discovery and invention, where the former is the discovery and naming of a naturally occurring thing, whereas the latter is the creation of things that haven’t existed before.
However in an infinite universe, with an infinite number of parallel universes, isn’t it a bit naive to believe that any of our inventions are genuinely novel?
My view is that the total amount of knowable information is constant, and also extremely large, possibly even infinite.
Which leads us to the first law of information thermodynamics:
The total amount of knowable information exists out of time, and does not depend on the entropy state of the universe at the time of consideration.
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