ZYGO Zygon® 0591-2385 1467-9744 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1994.tb00657.x AN ENERGY/AWARENESS/INFORMATION INTERPRETATION OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL REALITY Macdonald Copthorne 02 06 1994 29 2 10.1111/zygo.1994.29.issue-2 135 151

Abstract. Interpreting the universe as a medium‐message process has explanatory value in both scientific and philosophical/spiritual contexts. From this perspective, reality is seen to comprise an enduring medium modulated by transient information. Physically, the medium is energy. Mentally, the medium is awareness. Algorithmically, the medium is an information generator, a programmatic entity that generates temporary informational patterns which modulate the medium's energy aspect in space and time to produce matter and physical phenomena and modulate the medium's awareness aspect to produce subjective experience, mind. In philosophical terms, the medium is Being; the medium modulated by the message is existence.

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