Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 20:58:20 +0100
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Information basics 2
In-Reply-To: <000101be8c04$e3303de0$38233fce@rb4010>
In message <000101be8c04$e3303de0$38233fce@rb4010>, Richard Brodie
<richard@brodietech.com> writes
>Robin wrote:
>
><<In absolute terms, all descriptions made and used by people are
>subjective, while only the information actually embodied by a physical
>thing is objective. All the information with which we deal is
>subjective, however closely it might approximate to information that is
>actually "out there", in the form of physical reality.>>
>
>So people aren't physical things?
Did I say that? Surely you didn't read "out there" to mean "external to
the human body"? Or is it "all the information with which we deal" that
concerns you?
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