 Ever since Descartes, the idea that the meaningful world, we perceive around us, can be reduced to physical processes has been a predominant theme in western philosophy. The corresponding philosophical self-reflection in history neatly follows the technical developments from: Is the human mind an automaton, to is the mind a Turing machine and, eventually, is the mind a quantum computer? It is not the place here to discuss these matters extensively, but the corresponding problem in philosophy of information is relevant: