- Perhaps, or perhaps it really is impossible.
Regarding the rest, bear in mind that during Newton's era, many mechanical analogies/metaphors were made, then later it was steam engine analogies/metaphors that were made, and now we live in this digital age and predictably it is computational analogies/metaphors that are made.
When you are worried about trees, plants, and non-human animals spying on you, then you are missing out on the ability to benefit from their computation.
Yeah, great benefits. Let me know how that wolf spying on you ends up.
The universe is said to be a computational system which we keep no secrets from.
Said by whom?
Here we go into really shaky grounds, and I think we are mixing up a lot of different concepts to be able to meaningfully discuss them.
Either way, don't get me wrong, I enjoyed reading your article, but at least from my perspective there are several strange assumptions built in, which derails the whole thing. I'd have to try and pick all of them apart, and I just left a monster reply in @dan's article that you linked which took the better part of 1h20 to write, so for today is enough; I leave you just with this:
I want maximum privacy and transparency at the same time, as only having both is the path to true freedom.
^ Assumption
It's not a question of should we let everyone see everything we do, read our minds 24/7, etc, in order to free ourselves, vs let everyone mask everything they do, and have no clue what anyone is thinking 24/7 in order to free ourselves.
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Freedom requires we have the best possible information from which to make a decision but it does not require a human being to access that or a human judge.
You want to know what freedom is?
Go outside in a sunny day, without a worry in the world, you have water, you have food, you have good air, and you're surrounded by Nature.
You have enough material possessions to not have to worry about the basics.
Information has precious little to do with it.
And feeding vast amounts of data to ever-increasing human-made computers has even less to do with it.
In my opinion.