Dear Lev,
I wish I have read your essay earlier, it is just so wonderful. We are not only co-passengers of earth timeship but also co-mindsharing as well. It so wonderful to have "comrade in arms" wanderer so to speak just in jest!
You wrote: "However, as never before in the history of science, the pragmatic question is this: Since it is the spatial considerations that for several millennia have fully guided the development of mathematics and physics, how many physicists are prepared to start the development of physics more or less anew, on top of such or similar informational structure (as opposed to the present 'safe' flirtations with the bits)?
KQID: Qbit is all things; all things are Qbit. Qbit is that dimensionless at absolute zero temperature objective meaning in itself as Planck's matrix of all matter and Maxwell's infinite being that has unlimited storage capacity thus, no bit/qbit needs to be deleted, thus no entropy per Laudauer's principle will be generated.
I love this statement: "The above informational hypothesis is a generalization/extension of the biological organization and might be considered as a modern version of Plato's and Aristotle's views of Nature as the instantiation of Forms, which are actually the (Greek) root of the Latin verb informare = "to in·form"."
You wrote: "... I wish to draw your attention to the simple but overlooked fact that both physics and mathematics are built almost exclusively on the basis of spatial consideration, and this includes the way we treat time in physics."
KQID answered your plea: KQID relativity ψτ(iLx,y,z, Lm) Multiverse has time centric flexible c-timerod that measures distance, area and volume in terms of time. Time contracts so does length contracts. Time has inverse relationship with mass and energy, time contracts, the mass as well as the energy increases.
You wrote: "But the main reason for the above discussion is to prepare you for the sobering thought that, for the first time in the history of science, the transition we are apparently faced with (to the information- based physics)--if indeed the informational reality is primary--must be non-incremental, or put simply, we will have to start more or less anew." Yes I whole heartily concur.
Again KQID embedded with this hypothesis as true: "To get at least some physical intuition, think of an elementary particle as 'specified' by an ETS struct, and compare this view (see also Fig. 6) with the view expressed by John Bell: "For me, it is so reasonable to assume that the photons in those [Aspect's et al.] experiments carry with them programs that have been correlated in advance, telling them how to behave."
I agree with your conclusion about Bob and Alice exchanges bits and modified the whole reality in question: "Figure 6: Possible mechanism behind the quantum entanglement. The dashed arrows and the roman numbers represent events and their temporal order: (i) generation of the class and the emission of particles from that class (ii) Alice is interacting with the particle and this modifies the (non-spatial) class representation, which, in turn, modifies the class members so that (iii) Bob is now dealing with the particle from the modified class."
Yes, KQID has "holistic picture" of Existence and has done the theorical framework just to do this.
KQID has contextuality through KQID Ouroboros Equations of Existence that combines Newton, Maxwell, Planck, Boltzmann, Lorentz,Einstein, Laundauer, Wheeler , Feynman, Ssusskind, Hooft, Wilczek, Bousso and others. The Ouroboros Equations mean each interpretation involves every beginning to every ending. Similarly, everything we do involve the Ouroboros action or totality of any action. Nature is such unbelievable phenomena that we are just now starting to peek into its secret that is shockingly simple in the beginning but infinitely complex in the ending that per KQID every absolute digital time ≤ 10^-1000seconds. Interestingly, the mechanism is also simple. See my essay Child of Qbit in time.
First, KQID Qbit is (00,1,-1) which is singularity Qbit Multiverse in zeroth dimension at absolute zero temperature that computes and projects Einstein complex coordinates (Pythagoras complex triangles or Fu Xi's gua or Fibonacci numbers!) onto the 2D Minkowski Null geodesic and then instantaneously into the 3D in Lm, our Multiverse timeline to allows Existence to move around 360 degree and its arrows of time as you described below. As per Landauer's principle, no information is ever deleted. See my essay Child of Qbit in time. KQID is the only theory out there that can calculate the dark energy of our Multiverse ≤10^-153Pm/Pv and the minimum bits as the lower bound ≥ 10^153 bits in our Multiverse. KQID is the only theory that I knows here that proves bit = it, and KQID calculates Sun lights into Sun bits; calculates electron, proton and neutron in terms of bits; set up equivalent principle of bits with energy and matter. Therefore, Wheeler's it from bit and bit from it. Correct me if I am wrong. Furthermore, KQID is the only theory in this universe has the mechanism on how Holographic Principle works. Also answer the mother of all questions, the why, how and what Existence.
Pythagoras famously summarized: "All things are numbers." KQID rephrase it that all thing are one Qbit: Qbit is all things and all things are Qbit. Thus, Wheeler's it from bit and bit from it because bit = it.
Outlandish statement and may be self serving, but I humbly with all humility, I respectfully submit that KQID is based on the primary of "informational reality". KQID has developed from Creation story and mythology to TOE that covers philosophy, physics, law, economics, etc. that no other theories that I know has done so far. Please gives KQID a chance to be looked at under the bright Sunlight or Sunbits.
Yes, I share your conclusion and would like to add it to my essay Child Of Qbit in time. Hope you can comment if you like it, please raise its ranking because it is now under the water.
You are definitely a powerful original thinker. You are influential out of the box thinker, and let us share our thoughts. We shall change the world of space into bits.
Best wishes,
Leo KoGuan