Hi Dear Olaf,
I welcome your essay not for only it is written well and in attractive form, but mostly because you saying - ,,something is wrong here!,, Personally, I think the wrongness is too much that just enough to stop examine such topics at all. It is easy to realize if we go a little bit ahead and put next question. Let say the majority of people have voted ,,it from bit,, (or vs.) then what next? I mean nobody have seen actually ,,it,, and ,, bit,, waking himselfs separate each from others, but these are together always. The ,,it,, is a physical reality, which is characterized by some group of information (as example: value of mass, coordinates, impulse, forms, colour, laws of its behavior, and many others) I.e. we have actually the physical object with its attributes/properties, which is meaningless to divide each from others. The concept of ,,information,, (and its binary encoded form ,,bits,,) it is a abstract human's creations only (as well as the ,,language,, ,,mathematics,, and other abstract tools that can have the significance for us only, destined to use by our brains and not as himself existing kinds of things.)
My dear, in nowadays reality the physicists are confused so deeply; they already have just mixing totally different concepts and categories each with others (that is why we plying now such ,,it - bit,, games!) I have trying to show in my works that the problem has began much early and the way - how to solve it. Check please link text, if you find time! I am hopeful when I saw the some of professionals are doubtful and they thinking already that ,,something is wrong!,, I hope get your comments in my forum. I inclined to count your work as one valuable for me.
Regards,
George k.