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我在英文的 Substack 上寫了篇長文；部份內容節錄如下：

The universe once existed without anyone to think about information. There was no record, no communication, no trace of thought except the thought itself. When the rain fell, it fell once; when someone saw it, that perception vanished with them. There was no way for a moment to exist beyond its moment…

… everything we have built has been an attempt to improve that representation: to make it wider in scope, higher in resolution, faster in response. The telescope extended sight; the microscope, attention; the camera, memory; the computer, abstraction.

Then came the internet, the industrial revolution of the information world. Not only we see how information connects people, things, and ideas, we are building new connections at an unprecedented pace.

英文的 Substack 是個不同的空間；那裡比較像我的「思想實驗室」，許多天馬行空的想法，我會先在那裡試寫。甚至一些我最終不會在中文分享的題目，也會在那裡出現。

全文：https://unsubject.substack.com/p/when-information-begins-to-think