Comment by leohutson

He wrote that whole essay without using the r-word once, it is of course pretty obvious that digital files are made of bits, but it's reductionism to see them as only bits.

That's not unique to binary at all, humans are only fleshy machines made of cells, cells are only collections of atoms and atoms are only energy. Of course the universe doesn't care about any of those distinctions, those distinctions are "just" colorings imposed by our worldview.