[S]tability of solids, the fossils and rocks... exist... essentially unchanged. ...[T]he configuration carries intrinsic semantic information... diff… - Julian Barbour

[T]he work that I did with... has shown... time that is measured by clocks is... an average of all the changes in the universe.

[I]f you imagine two NOWs... there will be some difference between them, and if you work out some weighted average of all of that difference... you can call that... the amount of time between them. ...[T]his has nothing to do with some substance... It's just difference between those two things. ...[T]his is the quantity that is... being measured by my watch...

and variety are central to my critique of 'it from bit'. For we can only talk meaningfully about a thing, including a '', if it has distinguishing attributes. The way that they are knit together, as in the taste, shape and colour of an apple, defines the structure of the thing.