Abstract
Fundamental physics will be seen, as in Wheeler's vision, to be built from information. The nature of information is stranger than we usually suppose. It is fundamentally relational, and yet this requires the presence of a kind of pre-information (like minting of a coin). Symbols in our theories have a property of “emptiness” that allows them to be reinterpreted. This may be the source of the dynamical laws that allow the universe to emerge from a highly compressed skeleton of information. How observed features of our universe, particularly quantum randomness, could emerge from this sort of structure is a difficult but hopefully tractable problem. Further aspects of physics could emerge from our embedding within the structure, as Bits are created from the underlying structure via participation between observer (questioner) and subsystem.
Bram Boroson