Re: The Guardian on Information

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 20:16:17 BST

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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Wade T.Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>
    To: memetics list <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 4:28 PM
    Subject: Re: The Guardian on Information

    > On 06/21/01 14:53, Robin Faichney said this-
    >
    > >Here's a quote from it:
    >
    > Here's another-
    >
    > >Differentiation came into the universe, creating a pattern that
    > >required information.
    >
    > How anything, at all, ever, could 'require' information, is beyond me.
    > What patterns _are_ created through the elemental and primal forces of
    > the big bang, by definition, can be analyzed to _provide_ information (to
    > information-using entities), but the processes of this creation and even
    > the patterns themselves in no way _require_ any information.
    >
    > Perhaps I'm lost, but this classification of information as a necessary
    > and sufficient property of the universe seems specious to me.

    Hi Wade,

    Don 't panic though, you are not lost.... you still are wandering, so,...
    But, I am curious, specious !?
    In what way !?

    Best regards,

    Kenneth

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