In the Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics held in Tokyo, 1989, and published in 1990, American physicist John Archibald Wheeler delivered a paper entitled "Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links." From that I quote first the Abstract and then a few selected paragraphs: […]
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"19.2 "It from Bit" as Guide in Search for Link Connecting Physics, Quantum and Information.