Abstract
I defend the position that information lies not only in the heart of Life but also is at core of the reality studied by physics. Despite the central role information plays in shaping reality, It is more fundamental than Bit, the latter being just the reflection of the former. Once reflected though, bits are absorbed into It and become the integral part of the emerging reality which in turn is reflected again, and again, in a recursive loop, where the results of the previous iteration are plugged in as the input for the next. The recursion suggests that information is continuously generated by the events large and small, near and far; and that each event sees its own thread of causality. Together these threads weave into the intricate tapestry of reality. The view of flow of time as a fractal wave implies that information about the future may arrive beforehand in the form of smaller and seemingly unrelated events. Finally, the idea is advanced that nature may store information in the `now’ of an idling process waiting for the set of input, it requires in order to run, to complete, thus explaining the quantized flow of energy.
M. V. Vasilyeva