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Ontological primacy should not be given to information but to things, as has always been the standpoint of realists.

— Julian Barbour Bit from It (2011)

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Information theory would never have got off the ground if structured things—configurations—did not exist.

Bit from It (2011)

Thus, even now, three and a half centuries after Galileo... it is still remarkably difficult to say categorically whether the earth moves...

Shannon-type message sources could not exist if the universe were not subject to laws of nature and far from thermal equilibrium.

Bit from It (2011)

There is one metalaw of science: it cannot exist without structured things. Structured variety is the ground of being. That is what gives content to both science and life.

Bit from It (2011)

Richard Feynman... said, "Time is what happens when nothing else does." ...[T]hat's ...not the right way to think about time.

Julian Barbour on the nature of time (2009)

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