About this work

A working draft, in the open.

UNNATURAL is a book written in public. The chapters are drafts. The framing shifts week to week. Nothing here is a final claim.

What it is

One working answer to the child's question what are we? It argues that we are natural beings who slipped into the information realm and now loop it back through the physical world that made us.

The argument runs in three movements. Act I locates the floor of life in wanting, not thinking. Act II (init.d) argues that a finite observer cannot meet a fractal, chaotic universe whole, so distinction is how living things boot up inside the excess. Act III names the growth loop (Measure, Model, Manifest) and traces it from a single cell to a civilisation.

The site is the working surface. The wiki is the compiled residue.

Who

Written by Sahil Dawka. More at sahil.pro.

Method

The frame is unscientific empirical. Unscientific because it refuses to wait for lab equipment to catch up before talking about will, distinction, meaning, or growth. Empirical because every claim is meant to be checkable against a reader's own life, and revisable when it is not.

Three commitments run through every chapter. Mark what we observe. Mark what we interpret. Mark what we don't yet know.

Colophon

Display
Fraunces, variable optical size and SOFT axes.
Body
Source Serif 4, tuned for screen reading.
Technical
JetBrains Mono, for chapter numbers, labels, and the init.d reference.
Built with
Astro and plain CSS. The paper grain is an inlined SVG. Dark mode follows your system.
Source
github.com/sdawka/unnatural-info

Contact

Notes, objections, corrections, and questions are all welcome. This is a working draft, and the argument gets sharper when it meets resistance.