It from Bit and the Mathematical Universe

What this approach tries to solve

Wheeler’s “it from bit” connects physical existence with information and quantum yes/no distinctions; Wheeler’s essay asks how existence relates to quantum physics and information. See Information, Physics, Quantum.

Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis argues that external physical reality is a mathematical structure and discusses computable or decidable structures as possible restrictions on physical existence. See The Mathematical Universe.

What Panta Rhei shares

Panta Rhei shares seriousness about mathematical structure, interest in information, and refusal of naive matter-first ontology.

It also shares the thought that computability, decidability, and structural lawfulness may be more basic than familiar object language.

Where Panta Rhei differs

Panta Rhei does not take bit, mathematical structure, or all structures as primitive answers.

Under the Panta Rhei standard, bit must be earned, structure must be constructed, observerhood must be recovered, mathematics cannot be imported as unrestricted ambient ontology, and existence must be typed.

Panta Rhei shares the move from matter to structure, but it does not let structure become an unexplained externality.

Where to inspect next

• Coherent Theory of Reality for how reality-scope is framed.
• What the Program Refuses for refusal of shortcut foundations.
• Build the τ-Kernel for the starting construction.
• Recover Core Mathematics for mathematical recovery.
• No Externalities for the hidden-load rule.