You guys are going to have this site all to yourself soon. It's about there already. On the other hand, I find it significant that the subjects of...
Information by itself makes exactly zero sense. It's meaningless. Tiassa is right about James R's posting style. It's fallacious. He invents...
Information is an entity. Meaning is one of its attributes. Another attribute of information is that it can move from place to place (you can put...
Sorry, the question "can you put information in a bottle", is self referential. Can you see how? That is, assuming the bottle is made of a material...
That is generally true of any information. When discussing what it is, you have the difficulty that most of the information humans process, is...
Ok. Bye then.
I am discussing the topic. Information is either an attribute of something physical or its an entity. But I don't know that I need to specify which...
Well that might work. What I'm trying to understand is why I can observe myself observing--I know when I'm observing and I know about the process of...
How about completeness? Can any theory be said to be a complete model, or isn't that possible? I'm trying to imply there, that no theory can be a...
Would you agree that theories, in physics, represent what humans have interpreted about their observations?
Alrighty. So, patterns in a substrate become some kind of information. What the patterns mean depends on the context. Meaningfulness is something...
I've noticed this problem too. After logging in and seeing I wasn't, I tried refreshing the page, no joy so I went to the home page and behold! I was...
As you say in the next sentence, information can have a natural provenance. Actually, naturally occuring information probably far outweighs what...
I'd like to know if you can think of a source of information that isn't a pattern in a physical substrate. That would be interesting.
I'm not sure.
Notice that, in day to day experience, humans and other animals interpret their surroundings and decide what is important or relevant and what isn't.
Ok. A requirement of information is a physical substrate, and a way to make patterns appear in the substrate. . . .
What does philosophy require?
Right. It has to have the capacity to be meaningful. Assuming it doesn't get degraded such that the original meaning is lost. Right, so arbitrarily...
A binary string stored in a memory is the medium, it does not in-and-of-itself provide context. If I write a program that interprets this string as a...
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