Reality fundamentally is a high entropy system - higher entropy means more information is needed to describe the system - it also represents the minimum number of bits required to send that information. Stories are lossy compressions of reality

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Then you think of the sender (tx) and the receiver (tx) and the channel its sent over (culture, personal, nation, language etc) and you need stories and memes that are universal enough to survive the signal noise / packet loss / data loss - and it makes sense why universally understandable stories spread (thanks Shannon)

One thing that blew my mind when I learned about Shannon is how maximally-compressed data is indistinguishable from random data, given that all the patterns have been removed. And of course it’s maximum entropy too for the same reason.

So seemingly random data can actually be pure information that cannot be made any purer

i think that’s what makes the old testament stories so special