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On 05/02/01 10:05, Robin Faichney said this-
>>It's not information, to me, until someone can use it.
>
>Isn't the information in every physical thing just waiting to be used?
I'm not, at the moment, wanting to make that semantic gap irrelevant.
Information about something is hardly relevant _until_ it _can_ be used,
and for all purposes and intent, has no existence until it _is_ used.
>it is our attempt to minimise these differences that
>generates the laws of physics
I have not seen one law of physics that we have generated.
>I'm not making this up, you know! :-)
If someone does generate laws of physics, they are making them up.
- Wade
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