ABSTRACT
What does the world look like if the fundamental stuff of reality is not matter but information? That is the question animating this book. We live in an information age. Yet we also live in an overwhelmingly materialist age in which the things that seem to us most solid and inspire the most confidence are material. Information itself therefore tends to be conceived in material terms, as a property of matter.1 But what if information cannot be reduced to matter? To turn the tables even more sharply, what if matter itself is an expression of information? Such questions have been raised over the last few decades, but fleshing out an answer that convincingly casts information as more fundamental than matter has remained elusive.2 The aim of this book is to advance this discussion, expanding the reach and significance of information for our understanding of the world.
