40 Bits of Infinity: The Hidden Scandal of Re-Ality

There is a certain scandal hidden inside consciousness:

the world you inhabit is not the world that exists.

It is only the version your brain can afford.

We call this “reality,” but the word is misleading.

More accurate alternatives would be:

• Re-plica – because what you see is a copy, not an original.
• Re-construction – because your mind rebuilds the world every millisecond.
• Re-fabrication – because perception is engineered, not discovered.
• Re-vision – because the brain edits the world before you “see” it.
• Re-flection – because your experience is a reflection of your internal models.
• Re-generation – because your world is generated again and again, never fixed.
• Re-coding – because meaning is a code applied after perception.

All of these converge into the deeper spelling:

Re-ality = re-made ality.

The world as continuously re-formed by a nervous system too small to hold the original.

Let us open the mechanism that produces the illusion of “the world.”

1. The Human Perceptual Paradox:

11,000,000 bits per second ↓ compressed to ↓ 40 bits

This is not poetry – it is neurophysiology.

What actually enters the body:

Your sensory organs deliver ~11 million bits per second of raw data.

Most of this comes from vision; the rest from touch, hearing, smell, proprioception, vestibular input.

This is the full torrent of the physical world hitting your biological sensors.

What consciousness can handle:

Your conscious awareness processes about 40 bits per second

(S. Dehaene; N. Cowan; Harvard Mind/Brain Institute, 2016–2023).

Not 40,000.

Not 4,000.

Just 40.

This is enough bandwidth to:

• hold one sentence
• make a choice
• maintain a single line of focus
• switch attention
• perform one conscious task

Everything else – billions of micro-signals – is filtered out, ignored, suppressed, or rendered invisible.

Thus:

You never see reality.

You see the 0.00036% of reality that your brain can compress into a manageable stream.

The rest becomes background – the infinite unperceived universe.

This is the neurological bottleneck that makes “Re-plica” a more accurate term than “reality.”

1. Why the Brain Must Destroy 99.9996% of the World

Imagine trying to drink the ocean through a straw.

You would drown instantly.

Your nervous system faces the same problem.

Existence overwhelms biological limits.

To survive:

• vision discards 95% of the photons hitting the retina
• hearing compresses full waveforms into symbolic features
• proprioception filters out 99% of bodily signals
• attention selects 1–3 elements from the entire environment
• predictive coding fills in the rest by guessing

The brain destroys almost everything so consciousness can barely hold on to something.

This is not deficiency.

This is optimization.

Life requires reduction, not maximal input.

Thus:

The world appears stable not because it is, but because your perceptual system is forced to stabilize the chaos into a narrow channel.

1. The True World Is Too Large to Fit Inside You

What exists “out there” is:

• multidimensional
• non-linear
• superposed
• indefinite
• vibrating at thousands of frequencies
• full of information densities impossible for a biological system to decode

You experience the shadow, not the source.

The translation, not the text.

The interface, not the operating system.

Phenomenologists like Husserl and Merleau-Ponty understood this.

Modern neuroscientists (Seth, Friston, Dehaene) confirm it.

Reality is not perceived.

It is rendered.

1. The Brain Doesn’t Show You the World.

It Shows You Its Interpretation of the World.

This is the “Re-construction Engine” of consciousness:

Step 1 – Sensory Selection

What enters the pipeline is already a curated sample of signals.

Step 2 – Neural Prediction

The brain guesses what’s happening before the data arrives.

Step 3 – Error Correction

Incoming signals correct the guess – if they differ enough.

Step 4 – Meaning Assignment

Language, memory, identity assign context and significance.

Step 5 – World Stabilization

All guesses + errors + meaning compress into a coherent frame.

You call this frame “my reality.”

But truly it is:

• a Re-assembly
• a Re-coding
• a Re-plica of the world
• a Re-fabricated perceptual platform

Rendering.

1. Why “Reality” Should Be Spelled as Re-Ality

It is not the world “as it is.”

It is the world “as it was re-formed through you.”

To emphasize its reconstructed nature, we can invoke linguistic alternatives:

• Re-ality – not original, but iterated
• Re-plica – the copy you inhabit
• Re-vision – perception as continual editing
• Re-interpretation – meaning as aftereffect
• Re-fabrication – continuous neural synthesis
• Re-construction – experience as assembled architecture

Each term tears open the illusion that your senses “report facts.”

They do not.

They generate models.

1. ExNTER Principle:

Reality Is an Evolutive Rendering, Not an Absolute Condition

Here is the ExNTER truth:

You live inside a curated hallucination optimized for survival,

not a cathedral of truth.

This hallucination is:

• narratively coherent
• emotionally charged
• identity-anchored
• linguistically sculpted
• neurologically filtered
• culturally formatted

It is your Re-ality Layer:

your personal, dynamic, self-updating version of existence.

1. The Realization That Changes Consciousness Forever

Once you understand that your experience is only one of innumerable possible Re-plicas, several things happen:

• certainty dissolves
• rigidity breaks
• perception becomes fluid
• identity becomes dynamic
• creativity becomes infinite
• suffering loses its absolute character
• possibility opens like a new continent

Because if the world is a rendering –

then rendering is editable.

Language rewires perception.

Attention redirects probabilities.

Metaphor reconfigures cognition.

Belief systems redraw the map of the possible.

Frames sculpt what collapses into the 40-bit stream.

This is why NLP works.

This is why hypnosis works.

This is why reframing is liberation.

They intervene not in “reality,”

but in the algorithm that generates your Re-ality.

1. Final Statement

Re-ality is not what exists.

Re-ality is what your consciousness can hold.

And because consciousness is elastic, trainable, fluid –

your Re-ality is not a prison.

It is a canvas.

The original universe is too vast to enter you.

But you can widen the window.

You can expand the 40-bit bandwidth.

You can redesign the filters.

You can evolve the rendering engine.

And then –

the world begins to reveal what was always there,

waiting behind the limits of perception.