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- From: onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam)
- Subject: Re: Information in a system.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.181013.4027@hsr.no>
- Sender: news@hsr.no
- Organization: Rogaland University Centre
- References: <1992Nov14.160720@IASTATE.EDU> <9LPDuB14w165w@kalki33> <1992Nov17.171957@IASTATE.EDU> <1992Nov18.104221.28986@hsr.no> <1992Nov19.171040@IASTATE.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:10:13 GMT
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- >>Information
- >>is by nature an abstract concept.
- >>Also the order which arose in your program is very much associated with
- >energy.
- >>In computers a clockcycle of the processor is associated with an energy unit.
- >>(Hence the frequency of the processor is associated with the effect) The order
- >>in your program probably did not arise immediately since the process towards
- >order
- >>is iterative. So instead of spending energy directly, it spent processor time
- >>which in this case is roughly equivalent with energy.
- >
- > Well, yes. But then one can say that the laws of physics are "processor time"
- >that "generates information" too. Kalki seems to be arguing that since the
- >computer was made by an intelligence, the universe was made by an intelligence.
- >
- > However there doesn't seem to be any reason not to take it one step further
- >and say "Since the computer was made by humans, the universe must have been made
- >by humans."
- >
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- I only wish that Kalki would see this too. Have you noticed that when he is
- referring to information theory it seems like he is quoting it directly from a
- book, and then two lines further down comes with a statement which completely
- contradicts his quoted statements?
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- > | __L__
- >-|- ___ Warren Kurt vonRoeschlaub
- > | | o | kv07@iastate.edu
- > |/ `---' Iowa State University
- >/| ___ Math Department
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- Onar.
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