Lorraine Ford
Numbers:
If real-world numbers are things that can only be “jumped” to a new value, as opposed to things that can smoothly morph into a new value, then this implies that SOMETHING is jumping the numbers, i.e. something is assigning numbers to the categories (like relative position).
But exactly what could have the power to jump the numbers? Unless one believes in miracles or Gods, it can only be matter (from particles to living things) that is jumping some of its own numbers, And as a consequence of these number changes, the law of nature relationships automatically change other numbers that apply to other categories, simply by virtue of passive relationship.
And contrary to what Nicolas Gisin seems to imply, there are no zeroes and ones floating round in the universe: any numbers are always firmly anchored to a category, which is in turn firmly anchored into a law of nature relationship.
Information:
Clearly, there are no zeroes and ones floating round in the universe, let alone organised assemblies of zeroes and ones. However, people use zeroes and ones to symbolically represent FALSE and TRUE. But what could be true or false in the universe? The only aspects of the universe that are TRUE are the ever changing, on-the-spot, time-place, point-of-view collations of numbers that apply to categories. These TRUE collations of numbers, that are often only momentarily TRUE, apply from the point of view of matter, from particles to living things. In other words, "information" can only be TRUE point-of-view knowledge of the universe that is possessed by matter.