Lexicon of Arguments

 

Chalmers I 302
Information/"It from bit"/Wheeler/Chalmers: (Wheeler 1989⁽¹⁾), thesis: Information is fundamental to the physics of the universe, and even physical properties and physical laws could stem from information properties and the laws of information processing. (See also Fredkin (1990)⁽²⁾, Zureck (1990)⁽³⁾, Matzke (1992)⁽⁴⁾, 1994)⁽⁵⁾).
>Existence.
Note Chalmers I 388:
Wheeler is concerned about yes/no responses in measurements as a basis for everything. Thus, he is closer to idealism than I am with my approach.

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2. Edward Fredkin (1990). Digital Mechanics - An informational process based on reversible universal cellular automata. Physica D 45 (1-3):254-70 (1990)
3. Wojciech H. Zurek (1990). Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information. Wojciech H. Zurek (ed.) Addison-Wesley (1990).
4. Douglas Matzke (1993). Proceedings of the 1992 Workshop on Physics and Computation. Los Alamitos, Calif.:IEEE Computer Society Press.
5. Douglas Matzke (1995).Proceedings of the 1994 Workshop on Physics and Computation. Los Alamitos, Calif.:IEEE Computer Society Press.