A Conscious Universe

[bennyboy]

There are no people or cars, sure..but there -are- bits...and that is still a physical thing, understand?

We can talk about the specific mechanism of generating/holding information later. Please just address my point: that information about a "thing" does not prove the existence of that thing as more than information.

In the Matrix, if you see person, you have information about a person: size, shape, color, movement. But none of that information represents an actual person. The coherence comes from the IDEA of the thing, which is sufficient to generate the information. The information you see exists-- of course it does, you are experiencing it. But that doesn't mean there is a real Agent Smith in any real universe. Whether or not the idea is encoded in physical hardware somewhere, Agent Smith himself is still not more than an idea.