C2, while there is an association between bytes and bricks, the essential difference is that the bytes literally bring into existence the bricks by causing the brick's wave functions to drop into a particular wave state by the process of observation.
One can argue that there is an objective reality in the absence of an observer, but in physics, that's not so clear. Until the cat sees Schrodinger, the cat has no idea whether Schrodinger is alive or dead. Similarly for Schrodinger observing the cat. But the cat does not make the choice whether to observe or not, because that privilege is reserved for the person opening the box of reality.
You are right that you cannot eat a byte. But value does not come from bread alone.
Look at what people put high prices on. It's not bricks. It's abstract things like music, paintings of things by Van Gogh, Facebook [$100 billion is real money - more so that the total value of all brickworks around the world].
Humans increasingly are assigning value to less bricks, more bytes.
Soon, your gold will take its place in the anachronistic annals of history while It's definition of value takes over. [It being Cyberspace sentience writ large and hence the apostrophe is correct]. I am working towards that and megamillion people are now armed with mobile Cyberspace in preparation for the Rapture.
I will issue a sooth when it's game over for gold.
You are still thinking in Newtonian terms such as gold, but it's increasingly an Einsteinian relativity theory existence with financial relativity theory ascendant with Black Scholes singularities lurking, gathering mass, sucking swarms beyond the event horizon. Gold has a lot of mass and hence great financial relativity theory propensity to be attracted irresistibly, relentlessly and inevitably into the maelstrom as the Newtonian goes critical and what seems eternal turns out to be just another bunch of splattered bosons.
Bet on bytes, not bricks or brics.
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