iCode

The primary function of a code is not to encrypt information, but to make it accessible. In a sense, a code makes information, recognizes it in the random and chaotic states of reality.

Then you can have sets of codes, of course, like you have in video codecs - you have the great set of actual reality (whatever it may turn out to be) providing the electromagnetic waves to be captured, but you would need reality to capture and store that information. Instead we can do fine with an approximation - an 1080p HD video being the analogue of quantum chromodynamics in physics. Then quality drops, with resolution and bitrate but takes ever less infomation-space.

Thus the study of codes, crypotology is important in our daily lives because it enables us to analyze what quality our reality-interpreting codes, our thinking is. Are we going for the 1080p exquisit-detail and information-heavy version of reality or can we get by with the 460p FLV video on youtube.

While there surely are areas of life where convenience trumps other considerations, I urge us to go the extra mile, upgrade our mental hardware and go for the eye-burning high quality of reality.