First crack at my idea.
Lee Smolin recently posted "The black hole information paradox and relative locality"
His language, which is based on current beliefs, that "The Laws of Nature", are somehow more than sophisticated fitting algorithms, gives a description of information loss by two observers, a man dropping the information in the black hole, and a woman, seeing that same information later, when the hole is no more.
Nice tale; I invite you to read it.
He resolves the paradox.
What do I say?
It is handy to believe in these fundamental laws, because when we know them, then we can explain physical events, like throwing an encyclopedia inside a black hole, and later seeing the pages coming out with everything we printed on it.
The image in our brain has to be consistent, and these beautiful thought experiments are rewarding and amusing.
With my ultra skeptic view that we do not know any fundamental law, we just have a mathematical structure built in our heads, by which we can put together tales like this, and everything comes out right, I say this is an illusion.
What else do I say?
Nothing yet.
I haven't worked out my own tales. I'll keep you posted.
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