Pillar 6 of 8

Information

The universe computes. Everything that exists can be described as information — its creation, destruction, transformation, and the fundamental limits on all of these.

The Core Insight

Shannon proved information has a precise mathematical measure. Landauer proved erasing a bit generates heat. Wheeler proposed reality itself may be made of information. From hard drives to black holes, the physics of information is real physics.

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