John Archibald Wheeler's view of reality
An article on his views:
John Archibald Wheeler, high priest of quantum mysteries, suspects that reality exists not because of physical particles but rather because of the act of observing the universe.
"Information may not be just what we learn about the world," he says. "It may be what makes the world."
[Arts and Letters Daily via Not Exactly]
The more I think about it the more I find this view seductive. Although I haven't looked into it, I'm wondering whether this is connected to N. David Mermin's information-theoretical Ithaca interpretation of quantum mechanics (in a few words: "What are real are relationships; correlations, not correlates").
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