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On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Joe E. Dees wrote:
>Information must inform, that is, it must MEAN something, and the
>variations in birdsong must mean something different, that is,
>correspond to differing meanings. Otherwise, we're not talking
>information here.
No, we're not talking about *intentional* information here. What we're talking
about is physical information.
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