Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id TAA16999 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 14 May 2001 19:51:10 +0100 Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:45:52 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Information Message-ID: <20010514194552.B534@ii01.org> References: <3AF7FF80.106.3BDEF5@localhost>; <20010509102633.B480@ii01.org> <3AFC56DE.2154.121A2FA@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <3AFC56DE.2154.121A2FA@localhost>; from joedees@bellsouth.net on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:17:18PM -0500 From: Robin Faichney <robin@ii01.org> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 09:17:18PM -0500, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> On 9 May 2001, at 10:26, Robin Faichney wrote:
>
> > Can you explain how, using "the unknowable", Frieden and colleagues
> > were able to derive physical laws to the satisfaction of physics
> > journal reviewers?
> >
> > Personally, I suspect that what's critical is *amounts* of
> > information, so they only need a single figure for J in any particular
> > system, the number of bits.
> >
> > You have Frieden's book, don't you, Joe? Can you confirm that?
> >
> friedan does not need to calculate the incalculable in order to
> compare it with the calculable; he merely needs to derive the
> parameters of the different fuzzinesses, beneath which
> heisenbergian constraints will not allow is to fix measurement more
> precisely; it is from the specific characters of these fuzzinesses,
> and the ruiles governing their mathematical description, that
> particular laws emerge. And yes, I own the book.
Maybe you need to look at it again, then, in order to answer the simple
question: is J the *amount* of "intrinsic" information or not?
(Please note the quote marks there, and try not to throw another wobbly.)
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