Information; does it lie at the basis of reality (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 15:06 (2068 days ago) @ David Turell

QUOTE: "Whereas vagueness may be defensible in regard to natural entities conceivably beyond the human ability to apprehend, it is difficult to justify when it comes to a human concept, such as information. We invented the concept, so we either specify clearly what we mean by it or our conceptualization remains too vague to be meaningful. In the latter case, there is literally no sense in attributing primary existence to information.

DAVID: Basically the dhw bus will run you over, quantum findings or not.

Thank you. I’ve picked out the above quotation, as it mirrors my own thoughts precisely. Information as I define it is nothing but passive facts or details which we extrapolate from what most of us assume are the realities of the world around us. It has no function of its own until it has a user.