{"product_id":"the-substrate-why-reality-is-computation-and-what-that-means-for-everything-9798199688727","title":"The Substrate: Why Reality Is Computation and What That Means for Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sotiris Spyrou\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReality might not be made of matter. It might be made of information, executing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaterialism has a problem it has never solved. Several, and they turn out to be the same problem wearing different masks. Why does mathematics predict the universe decades before the physics arrives? Why is reality's information budget set by surface area, like a display? Why, after a century of neuroscience, is there still no account of why a brain is accompanied by the experience of being one?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Substrate\u003c\/b\u003e takes one idea seriously and follows it all the way down: that reality is mathematical structure executing itself, that space and time are settings rather than the stage, that matter is a stable pattern, and that the brain is an interface, not the source of you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat makes this book different is what it does next.\u003c\/b\u003e It builds the strongest case it can, across physics, biology and the science of consciousness, and then turns and attacks that case as hard as any sceptic would, and states plainly what would prove the whole thing wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside, you will find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e Why mathematics fits reality with a precision that \"useful coincidence\" cannot explain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e How mainstream physics already describes reality as something closer to a computed system than a collection of stuff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e Why the quantum weirdness stops being weird the moment you stop assuming matter is fundamental\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e Why a century of consciousness research keeps hitting the same wall, and what that wall is telling us\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e What changes, for identity, attention and how you face mortality, if any of it is true\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo mysticism. No credentials on display. An operator's investigation, by someone who spent twenty-seven years reverse-engineering how complex systems really work, turned on the largest system there is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Donald Hoffman, Bernardo Kastrup, David Chalmers and Federico Faggin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou don't have to agree. You won't be able to unsee the question.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968496648343,"sku":"9798199688727","price":1131.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199688727.webp?v=1782918264","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-substrate-why-reality-is-computation-and-what-that-means-for-everything-9798199688727","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}