Abstract
There is a growing interest recently to pursue the most tantalizing foundational question: "why the quantum?" from the point of view that "all things physical is information-theoretic in origin", thus "It from Bit". Here we shall endorse the reversed old-fashioned conceptual hierarchy: "Bit from It", by showing that the abstract-formal and "strange" rules of canonical quantization can be derived from 'a statistical model' singled out uniquely up to some free parameters by a set of physically transparent axioms within the realist tradition of classical statistical mechanics.
Agung Budiyono