The physical nature of information

Niels Henrik Gregersen, Paul A Davies

Zhi Gang Sha, Rulin Xiu

Although quantum physics has led to the most accurate predictions to date about the nature of matter and the universe, a metaphysical interpretation of its non-deterministic and subjective nature still remains an ongoing debate. In this work, we will review the nature of the debate and propose a new way to address the controversies about the non-deterministic and subjective nature of quantum physics. In our previous work, we have shown that everything is made of information, energy and matter. We propose to define spirit or soul as the content of information, spiritual heart as the receiver of information, and mind as the processor of information. In this paper, we show that the intrinsic uncertain and non-deterministic nature of quantum physics can be explained by the insights from these definitions. Information relates to the possibilities and potentialities of an object. Information is intrinsically uncertain and non-deterministic. Since quantum physics is the fundamental physics theory describing the information, energy and matter of everything, quantum physics has intrinsic an uncertain and non-deterministic nature. We further demonstrate that the process of quantum measurement can be interpreted as the role played by soul, spiritual heart and mind in the manifestation of physical phenomena. We conclude that our insight that everything is made of information, energy and matter and the definition of soul, spiritual heart and mind provides a simple metaphysical interpretation of quantum physics. They can help us understand and resolve the two controversies about quantum physics.

Martin Bodo Plenio

Vladimir S. Lerner, Malcolm Dean

Vladimir Lerner’s Information Macrodynamic (IMD) formalism is the first full application of John Archibald Wheeler’s “It from Bit” approach to physical Information processes. The IMD formalism accounts for the evolution of Information physics from quantum to classical regimes, showing how intelligence and Wheeler’s Observer-Participator are naturally emergent. Distinct from “digital physics” or simple coding-decoding schemes, the IMD formalism presents a continuous step-by-step physics of natural Information processes, from the first distinction to the emergence of the self-aware Information Observer.

Jacob D. Bekenstein

Asit Kumar Datta, Soumika Munshi

Information has a well-defined meaning in physics. The most fundamental analysis of the nature of information carried out so far originates from and in physics. In physics, the sub-discipline that comes closest to the derived meaning is communication theory. Originating traditionally as it does, communication theory concerns itself primarily with the challenge of information transmission rather than with the problems of information content or meaning. It is abstract in its approach to information, though concerned with the technical characteristics of communication channels independently of the nature of message sources, senders, receivers, or message destinations and coding strategies.