Complex information such as we find in the greatest art, such as my touchstone phrase from Shakespeare, "salad days," is not the end of macroinformation. I don’t say that Macroinformation will prove to be infinite in its mathematical sense, but it’s plenty infinite in its ordinary sense: no end in view.
Macroinformation emerges from interactions, frictions for example, among metadiffences. I’ve traced typical differences from I0 to I3, but marked I3 as In: no end in sight.
What’s over the horizon of what I’ve said so far (in the new Entrance)? Interactions among any metadifferences we can think of. Consider for example:
The differences between man’s view of himself before Freud and after Freud
The differences between any view before any revolution and after any revolution.
Your children
A judge
Stalin
Any theist’s god
Any new genius.
All that might pale beside macroinformation issuing from a rationalist (someone who performs well on the Wason Test) comparing any society’s view of itself and that view strictly falsified (which, in my view, is actually what the trial of Jesus could show us (and it doesn’t matter in this context how literally true any of the stories are).
Oh, and we mustn’t forget this one, one we can only imagine (and probably not imagine very well): consider the difference between the records that any society keeps and the evidence that any society doesn’t keep.
What evidence gets lost from the precinct evidence room?
What stories don’t get reported?
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