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I don't think so. "In information theory, the entropy of a random variable is the average level of "information", "surprise", or "uncertainty" inheren...

I think philosophical pessimism is just the recognition of the mind's need for trouble.

Why do you think that?

Boosters :up:

Ok. I shy away from ontological discussions because they seem to conjure the dragons they want to kill. This has the makings of a super massive thread...

Information is a property.

Ok, but DNA replication still isn't semantic information. Should we discuss the difference?

Just so we're clear that copying DNA is not a case of semantic information. No cognition involved.

I wasn't getting at anything, although I do think we're getting semantic information mixed up with the kind of information scientists use, including b...

Why are you laughing? That's what happened.

Maxwell's demon

Survival of the fittest?

We're here because embedded liberalism failed in the 1970s. Where were leftists at that point? Apparently voting for wage increases that couldn't be s...

I'm guessing it's the lockdowns and vaccine shortages.

Breakthrough is rare except with the delta variant and they're still collecting data about that. Regarding the article you cited, "a higher percentage...

:up: Take a break.

I don't want to be a reduction nazi because I think they end up unable to talk about anything but illusions. OTOH, if we can't look at what's going on...

In the interest of starting to specify different kinds of information, here's a Khan academy video. Can you access it? Do you have any good sources? h...

Life involves copying DNA and producing proteins based on "instructions."

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This is an old band I like. I think all latter day leftists do is rage against the machine and there's nothing wrong with that. In this song, they sug...

If you have time would you want to disambiguate the various kinds of information? It does seem like there's a common thread through them, so it's easy...

Dangling like a prey thing Dark winds blow Jesus up above and Jesus down below

It's what I do for a living. Yes, measures are taken to limit the spread of the virus,. but that has to do with PPE and blocking off the ICU to throug...

My first thought is that your friend's brain was affected by the virus. I'm guessing they've already done a head CT to see if she's had a stroke. If i...

I'm a naysayer. The exit path for virus leaving the lung of an intubated patient would be into the ventilator circuit and splat onto the viral filter ...

Because it's in superposition? The potential information is unique to that photon? So you would advise that we specify what kind of information we're ...

Paper cuts. :grimace:

I'm just not impressed by your knowledge of the topic so far. You've already presented misinformation about Shannon, so I think I'll rely on other sou...

Why does it have to pertain to interactions? There's information associated with a particular photon whether it interacts with anything else or not, r...

I think we'll just have to put up with being bombarded by weird opinions and little curiosity. Anyway, next week:. the holographic principle for dummi...

Neither is IIT.

What on earth are you talking about?

No, look back at Vagabond's explanation. Incels want to take sexual freedom away from women. Their hero is Jordan Peterson. They're nuts.

Telecommunications transmission didn't become digital until the 1960s, so I assume you're using "digital" in a different way. For a binary variable, t...

They do, though. See Vagabond's coverage of the topic previously in this thread.

This is just making you sound more bitter.

I guess.

You sound pretty bitter about the whole thing.

Sure. This topic is on the border of science and philosophy of science.

It's a derogatory term.

The information he was dealing with was a mixture of voice and carrier frequency. From his angle it was pretty abstract. He was a mathematician. Back ...

Noise was a known problem before Shannon because their technology was analog. It was basically a mass of transmitters and receivers sprawled across th...

Are you an incel?

Thanks! Fascinating. Tononi's abstract: "The brains of higher mammals are extraordinary integrative devices. Signals from large numbers of functionall...

That's what I'm saying. The lawyers gave the green light prior to fda approval.

Could you simplify that some? Aren't there multiple theories about how the brain integrates data?

Well, let's ask. @"Pop". Do you see information as a causal entity? Or as an explanation for everything? Or is it that a universe characterized by dis...

Information isn't an explanation. It's an observation. The universe is not uniform.

Semantic information? Or just the information associated with an organism's environment? @"Isaac" is familiar with some of the theories about how that...