What is so mysterious about human consciousness?

[Speck Tater]

63. Ah, but we can never see energy.

We only see the effects of energy. And so the concept of "energy" is a hypothetical construct used to try to explain the effects we see. But those effects can just as easily be described by information.

Imagine you see something at a great distance from you. It's a bright light, with several little pinpoints of light orbiting around it. You hypothesize some kinds of energy called "gravity" and kinetic energy, and work out how those forms of energy keep the objects in orbit around their parent star.

Then you look closer and find that the large body is emitting information that says "here I am" and the small bodies are responding to the information by seeking it's source. It has been shown by physicists much brighter than myself that everything we know about energy can be re-cast as information and we end up with the same consistent laws of nature, but where "energy" is just an abstract way of describing the effects of information.

What, after all, are the "properties" of an electron? What do we mean by "properties". We mean information about how it reacts to other nearby entities with other properties. The ONLY way we can every observe or measure anything is by watching it exchange information with something else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics