Information as the Lens: How Knowledge Structures Shape Perceived Reality
A Realization About Becoming Someone Else I've been thinking about something lately that refuses to leave my mind. I am not the same person I was in 2020. Not in the ordinary sense that people change with age, accumulate memories, or develop new interests. I mean something far deeper than that. The Arjun who wrote the hypothesis titled 'Biological Machines' in February 2020 and the Arjun writing this in 2026 are not simply the same observer with additional information layered on top. They are different observers. Not because reality itself changed — but because the interface through which reality is perceived changed. And the thing that transformed that interface was not time. It was information. When the Same Reality Appears Completely Different Consider two people standing side by side, watching the same sunset over the ocean. One person sees vibrant oranges bleeding into deep purples, crimson clouds against a darkening blue sky — a symphony of color. The oth...
