Oxford Physicist: Information Is Irreducible to Physics

Oxford physicist David Deutsch is an atheist -- who also endorses the reality of information as irreducible to physics.

"Information, in my view," he says in the clip (at about 40:35), "cannot be reduced to statements about atoms." He then gives a story about the transmission of information which should be familiar to any intelligent-design advocate. "It's only special kinds of information," he goes on, "that are preserved and instantiated," not because of their physical instantiations, which ...