# The Conceptual Domain

By [Juvenalis X](https://paragraph.com/@juvenalis) · 2022-09-01

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_Initial observations_

The unmanifest conceptual space is ever present, global and infinite.

The meaning contained within the universe is infinite at every point through time and space.

Without sentience conceptual reality does not manifest. Within a sentient entity’s private awareness, it does — to the depth that the awareness perceives.

Manifestations within conceptual reality are caused by the perception of some data. They do not manifest without this physical cause.

Every object has a subject and every subject has an object. Without either the entity would not exist.

Data is tangible and manifests in physical space; information is intangible and manifests in conceptual space.

Data can be stored as matter or transmitted as energy.

Data carries informational potential about the qualities of its source when it was emitted, reflected or refracted.

\[Image from [Shannon, 1948](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematical_Theory_of_Communication))

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