Magnificence Requires no Meaning

People sometimes ask the “big questions,” like
“What is the meaning of life?”
“Why are we here?”

I want to humbly submit that these are the wrong questions.

This reality and its sisters are part of a vast and complicated scheme of many levels and embeddings. If you have a mystical experience of this kind, you come away with one conclusion: magnificence requires no meaning.

When I say ‘humbly’ I mean that I have glimpsed this magnificence and it blew away the arrogance I had that my human mind was capable of understanding what is out there, let alone any meaning it might serve.

Before you witness it, you think, “Yeah, but…” and afterward, you think, “Yes.” It is just that absolute. There is no way to argue for it. It must be experienced, and once it is, the matter is settled.

One good question remains, and it is “How does it work?” We cannot hope to understand it all, but we can deal with parts, and the parts all follow the same rules of information.

Some physicists believe that reality is based on information, not matter, and I do too, at least concerning the part of reality that I have to do with. Nevertheless, even in a world of matter, your understanding is informatic and it must obey the rules of information. All that cannot fit into your informatic system is discarded as noise, so your reality always appears to be informatic. There is no escape, so understanding it might as well be accepted as the fundamental undertaking.

Questions about Information are a holy pursuit, because the principles of information connect us to all of reality. And it is magnificent.