Information Needs Quantum Indeterminacy?

Information Needs Quantum Indeterminacy

S. Kauffman

 In short, if we think information is ontologically real, we seem stuck with its base in quantum mechanics and quantum ontological Possibiles. If we do not think information is ontologically real, I await elucidation.

I end by noting that information theory, Shannon or Kolmogrov, assumes a free willed agent who can possibly create the symbol sequences (11111) or possibly (01111), then also possibly choose to send ONE of these OR the other, down the channel.

I got all excited, when I read this a decade ago.  S. Kauffman, in an interview about the article, said it was just a "way to think about it" and he wasn't invested.

Still, the bolded part above: is what I believe, that reality includes a nexus of real-world probabilities (as information objects) with some independence of their presence in a fixed time or physical location.