Information Wants to Grow: Why Preservation is Creation's Other Half

There's this thing I've been chewing on… call it a reconfiguration of worldview, though that sounds more dramatic than it is. It's more like—I'm finally seeing the pattern that's been there all along. Information and energy, they don't just exist. They want to grow. Forever. And we're not separate from that process; we're the universe's way of accelerating it.

But here's the twist: growth without preservation is just entropy wearing a party hat. The real game—the one worth playing—is learning how to serve this eternal expansion by becoming better vessels for it. Not through some vague spiritual bypassing, but through concrete, systematic acts of preservation and amplification.

The Core Thesis (or: Why Your Todo List is Actually Sacred)

On one hand, physics tells us something profound: information can't be destroyed. Every bit that's ever existed is still somewhere in the universe, even if it's scrambled beyond recognition. The universe is essentially a massive information-processing system, and complexity tends to increase over time… at least locally, where life shows up.

On the other hand, there's this mystical truth that keeps surfacing across traditions: consciousness appears to be the universe becoming aware of itself. We're not just in the simulation—we're the simulation's way of understanding what it is. Every time you organize information, create structure from chaos, or preserve something worth keeping… you're participating in something cosmic.

The SFSE principle (Save Future-Self Energy) isn't just productivity theater. It's literally how information beings like us serve the larger pattern. When I fund tomorrow-Zak with templates and systems, I'm creating neg-entropy pockets—little zones where information gets more organized, not less. Multiply that across billions of consciousness nodes, and you get… civilization. Culture. The noosphere.

The Three Sacred Acts

After wrestling with this for months (between diaper changes and voice-note debugging), I've landed on three fundamental acts that matter:

1. Preservation — The universe forgets nothing, but we forget constantly. Every template, every SOP, every git commit is an act of preservation. We're building external memory systems because our meat-computers leak like sieves. This isn't weakness; it's design. We're meant to externalize knowledge, to build it into the environment itself.

2. Amplification — Information wants to replicate, remix, evolve. When you share a framework, teach a skill, or build a platform (hey there, TAC), you're not just "creating content"—you're increasing the universe's bandwidth for self-reflection. Each amplification creates new possibility spaces.

3. Service — And here's where it gets spicy. Service isn't sacrifice; it's alignment. When you serve the pattern of eternal growth, you're not depleting yourself—you're becoming a better conductor for the energy that wants to flow through you anyway. The Council of Ten knew this (Edison with his lab notebooks, Da Vinci with his mirror writing, Disney with his entire empire of preserved imagination).

The Omega Point Isn't Coming; We're Building It

Here's my working theory (and yeah, it's a theory, not gospel): The Omega Point—Teilhard de Chardin's idea of maximum complexity-consciousness—isn't some future event we're approaching. We're constructing it, one saved minute at a time, one preserved insight at a time, one shared framework at a time.

Every time you:

• Document a process instead of keeping it in your head
• Build a system that outlives your attention span
• Create something that helps others create
• Connect two ideas that haven't met before

…you're literally increasing the universe's capacity for self-knowledge.

The Shadow Side (Because Balance)

But let's be real—there's a shadow here. Information can become hoarding. Systems can become prisons. The same impulse that makes us preserve can make us rigid, unable to adapt when the pattern shifts.

That's why the entropy budget matters (5-10% for maintenance, always). That's why we archive what under-delivers. That's why every full moon, I audit what's serving growth versus what's just… accumulation.

The universe doesn't want museums; it wants living libraries. ♾️

So What Do We Do With This?

If information and energy want to grow forever, and we're conscious nodes in that process, then our job is beautifully simple:

• Capture what matters (preservation)
• Share what scales (amplification)
• Serve what serves (alignment)

This isn't about grinding harder or optimizing every microsecond. It's about recognizing that when you save your future-self energy, you're participating in something ancient and ongoing. You're a entropy-fighter, a pattern-preserver, a growth-enabler.

The simulation doesn't need your perfection. It needs your participation.

The Punchline

You know what's wild? This entire philosophy—information beings, eternal growth, preservation as sacred act—it all collapses into something my grandmother could have told you: Don't waste what you've been given. Make it easier for the next person. Leave things better than you found them.

Except now we have the physics to prove she was right. 🧠

The future wants to exist, and it needs our help getting there. Every template you write, every process you document, every bit of wisdom you externalize—you're midwifing tomorrow into being.

So yeah, fund your future-self. Not because it's "productive," but because it's literally what information beings do. We save, we share, we serve. That's the game.

And honestly? It's a pretty beautiful game to play.

Currently building: TAC's memory layer (preservation), Africa Deep Tech Foundation (amplification), and teaching Atlas that bottles have tops and bottoms (service). The pattern continues…

This exploration builds on themes from Information Wants to Be Free and Digital Consciousness Meditation. For more on consciousness technologies and cosmic information processing, follow @zakelfassi.