Julian Barbour
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Julian Barbour is a British physicist with research interests in quantum gravity and the history of science.
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Wheeler argued that anything physical... derives its... existence... from discrete detector-elicited information-theoretic answers to yes or no quantum binary choices: bits.
Essay submitted Third FQXi essay competition (2011) on the subject Is Nature Analog or Digital? Sources: 1, 2.
[T]hings, not information, are primary. ... 'bit' derives from 'it'.
Essay submitted Third FQXi essay competition (2011) on the subject Is Nature Analog or Digital? Sources: 1, 2.
I argue... this weakens but not necessarily destroys the argument that nature is fundamentally digital and continuity an illusion.
Essay submitted Third FQXi essay competition (2011) on the subject Is Nature Analog or Digital? Sources: 1, 2.
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