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CHAPTER 04

What Is Reality?

Follows questions of information, reality, observation, and experience to examine the boundaries of what we call real.

4 explorations
  1. 19

    Does ‘It’ Come from ‘Bit’?

    Examines how John Archibald Wheeler’s ‘It from Bit’ reframed the relation among the physical world, observation, and information.

    • It from Bit
    • Wheeler
    • Quantum mechanics
    • Observation
  2. 20

    Is Information Physical?

    Clarifies Landauer’s claim that information processing depends on real devices and thermodynamic constraints.

    • Information
    • Landauer principle
    • Thermodynamics
    • Computation
  3. 21

    Are We Living in a Simulation?

    Examines the three alternatives in Bostrom’s simulation argument and the assumptions on which its conclusions depend.

    • Simulation argument
    • Bostrom
    • Probability
    • Virtual worlds
  4. 22

    What Does It Mean to Be Real?

    Asks what science treats as real among observed phenomena, theoretical entities, relations, and structures.

    • Realism
    • Antirealism
    • Structural realism
    • Philosophy of science