Platonic information theories

In reply to Rafael, I hope that we are not moving into a re-usage of
the Platonic theory of the eternal form - which is quite different
from Aristotle's hylomorphic theory - for Aristotle rejects an eternal
form. I think it's an important question that Rafael has raised - the
relationship of time to information. That is, if we reject the
Newtonian absolute time - as Koichiro has pointed out - and instead
move into a notion of relativistic time, then, we get a very different
understanding of matter/information. Why? Because time becomes an
actual component of matter/information. Time doesn't sit 'up there' as
an abstract referential ruler but exists only when it is a component,
by encoding, of matter/information...and this means that time exists
in relations. And, that there are different modes of time.

Edwina Taborsky
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Received on Fri Jan 3 15:18:21 2003