"It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom — at a very deep bottom, in most instances — an immaterial source and explanation; that what we call reality arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions and the registering of equipment-evoked responses; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and this is a participatory universe. " John Archibald Wheeler.
Wheeler is said to have gone through three phases of thought (in order) in his physics career. 1) Everything is particles 2) Everything is fields and 3) Everything is information...
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Art derived and altered (by me) from here:
https://www.organism.earth/library/document/participatory-universe