Information Transcending Physical Form

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Information exists in physical forms such as text, sound waves, and visual stimuli, but it can transcend these substrates. Despite needing a physical form to exist, information is independent of the specific form in which it is instantiated.

This is my interview with David Deutsch, Visiting Professor of physics at the Centre for Quantum Computation, the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University and an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. We discuss the constructor theory of information, some of its conjectured principles, the unification of classical and quantum information, and more.

Constructor Theory of Information paper - https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1405/1405.5563.pdf

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