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

It is a mistake to believe that the digits 0 and 1, being abstract, represent the immaterial. Quite... the contrary... they stand for something quintessentially concrete.

[T]hings, not information, are primary. ... 'bit' derives from 'it'.

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.