From: Grant Callaghan (grantc4@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun 02 Mar 2003 - 21:05:51 GMT
Again, there was no-one in the Tlingit tribe that came to Harvard to
examine their own tribe's artifacts that had any idea what several of them
were for. The information that helped to form this artifact is gone. It is
not only not invariant, it is absent, and no-one, even from the culture
that created it, had any information about it.
The information is still encoded in the artifact.
Bullshit.
- Wade
Speaking of bullshit, I suppose you'll tell me there's no information
encoded in Egyptian and Summerian writing and artifacts, either. Just what
do you consider information? Does anything meet your criteria?
Grant
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