Abstract
Quantum information theory maintains that the source of being – humankind’s ultimate reality – is information. Accordingly, John Wheeler said that subatomic entities exist in a probabilistic limbo of one of many states, determined by one’s act of observation or measurement. “It from bit” advocates have this view of the micro world based upon a quantum world of probabilities and uncertainties, something they can’t see or understand, but which their consciousness forms. Though they use their subatomic view to explain our “tailor-made” seen world, too often, they support their concept with macro examples characterized with subatomic characteristics. An anthropomorphic view serves to bias their perception of the macro world toward a human-centered “observer-as-creator,” an extension of the age-old world of gods and kings.
James Lee Hoover