Re: The Guardian on Information

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 24 2001 - 20:44:13 BST

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    Hi Robin Faichney -

    >(I.e. a
    >practically universal consensus is reached that treating physical
    >structure as information is more useful than not.)

    Yeah, I totally am with you on the not-understanding front, but, hmmm,
    treating things as being more useful than not is only a handy tool
    towards understanding, not a property of what is being studied,
    necessarily.

    Certainly the structure's structure is informative....

    But I'm totally with Joe when he says one needs an entity that is being
    informed, and, I can't see any other entity being informed than, well,
    homo sapiens sapiens.

    And it's sometimes dangerous sharing jargons, or to settle with what is
    convenient.

    - Wade

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