Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 136 of 171
Information as resurgent Platonism
“I am aware that in this information-centered era, many scientists and philosophers are bamboozled by the idea that information lies at the bottom of reality. It is nothing more than a resurgence of Platonism supported by the social and economic power of computer science and [the] Internet. If one gets back to the original formulation of information, one sees that it is just an epistemic tool.”55 —Riccardo Manzotti