Vladimir F. Tamari,
"Information is an artifact of human thought imposed on Nature to describe some of its aspects."
After reading your essay, I think that you say more than this sentence reflects. However, each time I read it, I question why you said it in your introduction. It reads like a conclusion. Yet, it suggests to me that you are not speaking about nature's information but, rather, about interpretation.
"Information about Reality, including BITs, is an artificial concept obtained by sentient observers who sample Reality (IT) using various very limited aspects of it through the senses or scientific instruments. This imperfect input is processed through various neurological, logical and mathematical means to form a concept, idea or image of the original. Fundamental Reality is diluted, distorted or lost. The process is exemplified by an optical imaging situation where the object (Reality) emits or reflects light (Information) to create an Image. In the case of an ideal lens the image is almost identical to the object, but most other situations involve imperfect instruments and fallible human perception and understanding. The image is often imperfect, and its interpretation heavily biased by the cultural, philosophical or even religious beliefs and preconceptions of the time."
Could you please give your opinion of this statement of mine: I think that this may be viewed in a different manner giving the opposite conclusion. The information we receive arrives in a storm of wildly mixed photons from innumerable sources and directions. The lenses and other interrupting devices do not, I think, pass on images. They pass on an alterred arrangement of that mix of photons. It is the processing that our minds do to it that draws a possible image out of the mix and forms it into a picture. I see that picture as being most usually an improvement of the information that was received. Our minds choose what to make of the information and proceed to make it.
You mentioned intuition in another part of your essay. What is 'intuition' in your view?
"Nature and information can then be regarded as one and the same thing. The state of the nodes on the surface of a volume of such nodes is the result of interference-like effects of all the nodes within, affirming the Holographic Principle. Another way of putting it is that the Universe is a sort of quantum computer. In this paradigm the Question can be readily answered: In the Universe it is neither IT from BIT nor BIT from IT, but rather IT=QUBIT."
The first part "Nature and information can then be regarded as one and the same thing. ..." seems to me to be questionable. Particles generate information and that information is delivered to us. The particles are not the information. I think you mean something other than what I read into your words. I know your paragraph is explaining your view, but, I don't see how it fits with nature. Nature no doubt computes but it cannot be a computer. Nature has the property of 'understanding'.
I have expressed opinions of mine, but, it is your opinion I am interested in reading. Whatever you think about what I have said would be appreciated to learn.
James Putnam