Charles Liu

So it's information in the way that we think about it, yes, but it also requires you to sort of think about it in systems of stuff and not just the things themselves, but almost an abstract way of considering material.

Yes.

It's kind of like an objective thing that's there no matter what.

But if you don't measure it, then you don't know what it is.

An example might be a bit.

You've heard of the term a bit in a computer, right?

A 16-bit chip or something like that.

The bit is the information, one or zero, or on or off.

But it doesn't matter whether the bit is an electronic chip or whether it's a quantum bit or whether it's a pair of electron positron or something like that.

That information is still the important piece of the input or output that you're getting from that system.

Does that make sense?

So a lot of computation and thinking requires about the information that the physical thing is carrying and not the thing itself.

I sort of can walk us through, but it's long and complicated, right?

But you hit your nail on the head.

Information has a lot to do with something.

Okay, Gary, let's say you flip a coin.

Yes.

Okay?

And it can be head or tail, right?

Now, what happens if you flip 10 coins?