[S]ymbols have no meaning if divorced from the entities that they represent. - Julian Barbour

Ontological primacy should not be given to information but to things, as has always been the standpoint of realists.

There is one metalaw of science: it cannot exist without structured things. d variety is the ground of being. That is what gives content to both science and life.

[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...