Abstract
Here, I suggest that whether the fundamental building block of our reality is called an "it" or a "bit" doesn't matter; instead, the essential feature of this building block is that it's an existent state. I further propose that more and faster progress towards a deeper understanding of the nature of existence could be made if we argued less about whether or not to call this state an "it", a "bit" or anything else, and worked more on figuring out what the properties of a generic existent state might be and how these properties could be used to build a model of the universe. Using this "philosophical engineering" approach, a simple physical-mechanical model of an expanding space that displays a symmetry breaking event and energy creation was developed.
Roger Granet