Re: info & physics

abir.igamberdiev@risoe.dk wrote:

> Dear Pedro and Colleagues,
>
> Just a brief note about the physical background of information. I think it
> is important to consider the possibilities of world's physical structure
> which makes information transfer possible. As well as the physical structure
> does make it possible the existence of atoms, of life and consciousness. But
> in general this is quite far from the physicalist views. Also I would note
> that information is not simply a selection (otherwise it would be a truism
> that has no information) but it is a message about making selection. The
> result of this selection is implicitly contained in the information by which
> a selection occurs (that is why information possesses a feature of
> 'anamnesis' (following Socrates and Plato): knowledge is a 'remembrance' of
> a canon of perfection).
>
> Best regards
> Andrei Igamberdiev

The correct observation of John Collier (cf. e-mail of John Collier of Mon, 13
May 2002 19:12:23 )
that two people could interpret the same message differently
shows that information cannot be a message.

In a similar way, as
two people could interpret the same data differently
information cannot be some kind of data.

In more detail, this is explicated in the paper (
M. Burgin THE ESSENCE OF INFORMATION: PARADOXES, CONTRADICTIONS, AND
SOLUTIONS)
and in the comments to the paper of Floridi (Is information some kind of
data?).
Received on Fri May 17 22:17:53 2002