From Quantum Impact to World

Why Information Is Not Transmitted but Manufactured by Procedural Transduction

by Victor Langheld

 

1. The broken picture of informational reality

Modern “informational monism” begins with a seductive error:

Because reality can be described digitally, it must itself be digital information.

This treats bits as semantic atoms, as though photons, voltage spikes, or molecular impacts were tiny carriers of meaning. But nothing in a quantum impact is about anything. A particle does not “contain” a message. It merely strikes.

This error persists because we confuse the final structured outcome — a world, a thought, a pixel, a protein — with the blind events that force that outcome to occur.

 

2. Finn’s thought-experiment restated

A sequence of quanta

strikes a receiver system .

The receiver reads the series as a message.

But what exactly is that relationship?

The naive answer is: the bits are the message.

The correct answer is: the bits are only the triggers.

 

3. Where the message really exists

The “message” is not in the stream.
It exists only as a state-change in the receiver.



Different receivers, same impacts — different worlds.

Impact Stream

Receiver Constraint

Resulting “Message”

01000001

ASCII decoder

“A”

01000001

Camera CCD

Grey pixel

01000001

Ribosome

Amino acid fragment

01000001

Immune cell

Inflammatory cascade

01000001

Stone

Nothing

If the information were in the quanta, all receivers would read the same message. They never do.

 

4. Why “representation” fails

Nothing in the impact stream resembles the outcome:

·         DNA codons do not resemble limbs.

·         Photon bursts do not resemble colours.

·         Electrical spikes do not resemble thoughts.

So the relationship is not representational.
It is causal and constructive.

 

5. The universe as analogue output of digital strikes

Finn’s central insight is that:

The identifiable universe is an analogue world continually forced into existence by discrete quantum contacts.

This means that pattern, form, identity — what we call “information” — is not transmitted but manufactured locally by every system forced (i.e. driven, energised) to respond to impact.

The world is not a read-only display of cosmic data.

It is a factory of outcomes.

 

6. What is really happening

Each receiver is a constraint-engine.
Each quantum strike is blind.

When the two meet, something new appears:



This is not encoding.
This is not decoding.
This is not representation.

It is forced conversion of operational regime.

 

7. The name that fits

We already have the technical term transduction:
the conversion of energy from one form to another.

But here the conversion is not mechanical — it is procedural, governed by survival-filtered constraint-sets.

Therefore the correct term is:

 

Procedural Transduction

Procedural Transduction is the compulsory conversion of blind quantum contact sequences into structured analogue realities through the constraint-logic of a receiver system.

 

8. The final reversal

The universe is not written in information.

It is hammered (i.e. “touched”) into form by impact after impact.

Meaning is not transmitted.
It is manufactured in the collision.

 

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