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The world-creating Potential of the Big Bang Singularity was transformed (enformed) into Life, the Universe, and Everything by the power of EnFormActi...
December 28, 2020 at 00:33
Yeah! That's the ticket : "Inversion" -- a mental flip of the coin. When I said that Shannon's Information substituted "generality" for "specificity",...
December 28, 2020 at 00:07
Sorry for the confusion. As an amateur philosopher, I'm in over my head. But, if you have any interest in a deeper discussion of what I'm talking abou...
December 27, 2020 at 18:48
Unfortunately, that's his real name. And he is fringey, in the sense of revolutionary. I have read a Kindle copy of his book, Quantum Evolution, becau...
December 27, 2020 at 18:11
I agree with your version, but what I said was that "by reducing specificity" -- which increases generality -- Shannon's definition of Information "ma...
December 27, 2020 at 03:45
See my reply to above. :smile: Information : For humans, Information has the semantic quality of aboutness , that we interpret as meaning. In computer...
December 26, 2020 at 18:54
Charged with maximizing the flow of communication, Shannon was interested in measuring the carrying capacity of the system, not the meaningful content...
December 26, 2020 at 18:47
Yes. Like Pierre Simon Laplace, Claude Shannon had "no need for that hypothesis" in his definition of Information. In both cases the researcher was fo...
December 25, 2020 at 02:10
Yes, The focus of exploratory Science is on the reductive details . . . piece by piece; pixel by pixel. Since the modern analytical materialist scienc...
December 25, 2020 at 00:10
Good point! That is why I say that Energy is Information (the power to enform), but Information is not just mechanical Energy. Information also causes...
December 24, 2020 at 01:13
Yes. Most scientists ignore the clear signs of Intention in the evolution of our world. For example, "Natural Selection" was the analogy used by Darwi...
December 24, 2020 at 00:53
But "information" is "knowledge" . . . and much more. Your narrow reductive definition of "Information" omits most of its overall "generic" meaning, j...
December 24, 2020 at 00:16
No. Not in the usual sense of top-down determinism. Based on my Enformationism worldview, the top-down design theory doesn't fit the facts on the grou...
December 23, 2020 at 18:15
Yes. That's why I give my own custom definition. The term "genetic information" would completely miss the point of my useage. So I adapted "generic" t...
December 23, 2020 at 04:17
OK. Sorry for intruding on your thread. I suspect that you are more likely to get the kind of feedback you're interested-in on a science forum. FWIW, ...
December 23, 2020 at 03:41
No need to get defensive. I wasn't critiquing flaws in your definition of Information, etc, but merely offering my observations from a different persp...
December 22, 2020 at 23:26
Since my understanding of the universal role of Information in the universe diverges radically from most particular & reductive mainstream concepts, I...
December 22, 2020 at 23:12
Ah . . . I remember the joys of the simple-minded particular faith of Reductionism! Sadly, I have abandoned the simplicity of near nothingness, for th...
December 22, 2020 at 22:57
I can relate to that story. I never claimed to be an convinced Atheist, but did call myself an open-minded Agnostic for years. Yet, late in life, I al...
December 22, 2020 at 22:45
I assume the referenced question is about "how the mechanism of organism works". And your "definition" makes the most obvious distinction between Mech...
December 22, 2020 at 19:00
Yes. Both energy and matter can propagate through empty space. But a Neutrino is like a Photon, in that it can indeed "travel through a vacuum". So it...
December 22, 2020 at 18:21
What scientists call a Quantum Fluctuation is "temporary random change in the amount of energy in a point in space". The key concepts here are "random...
December 22, 2020 at 03:21
I could rephrase that assertion as : the vacuum is spacetime with no material extension or physical change, but only the un-actualized Potential for c...
December 22, 2020 at 01:35
Yes. I was led by my exploration of the Enformationism thesis to conclude that something like a Divine Creator -- or First Cause of our space-time seq...
December 21, 2020 at 23:44
As you said, the ontological status of "Information" is a complex topic with many aspects. In order to understand my personal attempt at clarification...
December 21, 2020 at 19:15
Your friend may be making a distinction between the physicist's concept of relative "nothing", and the philosopher's notion of absolute "no-thing". Wh...
December 21, 2020 at 18:49
FWIW, my review of Paul Davies' book : http://bothandblog6.enformationism.info/page6.html
December 21, 2020 at 00:10
If you have any interest in a Philosophical framework & definition of "Information", the linked thread below discusses the Epistemological & Ontologic...
December 21, 2020 at 00:02
That's exactly the point of the Enformationism thesis. Generic (general, universal, creative) Information is Meta-physical. But it has the power to tr...
December 20, 2020 at 23:29
Yes. It's well-known in philosophy that Universals and Generals are abstract and non-specific, hence lacking in concrete specified meaning. But that v...
December 20, 2020 at 18:54
Not necessarily. It's possible that the Universal Observer (measurer) is God, as proposed by Berkeley : There was a young man who said "God Must find ...
December 20, 2020 at 18:39
Yes, but the meaning of those transmissions is extracted from the digital code by the mind of the receiver. As philosopher Edward Feser noted : "Shann...
December 20, 2020 at 18:11
Here's my own personal general definition of Information : Information : Knowledge and the ability to know. Technically, it's the ratio of order to di...
December 19, 2020 at 19:07
They work their magic via statistics. Probability is a way to predict the future state of a system via the math of Normal Distribution (Bell Curve). E...
December 19, 2020 at 18:56
Yes. Exactly how & why a mental measurement "causes" changes in physical objects is still a mystery, and a topic of debate among Scientists, Philosoph...
December 19, 2020 at 18:41
Spinors are way over my pay grade. But, it seems that they are merely Vectors that rotate under certain circumstances. And Vectors are not real things...
December 19, 2020 at 17:48
Like all forms of energy, you can see the effects of fields, but not the fields themselves. They exist as immaterial mathematical statistical relation...
December 18, 2020 at 19:01
I don't think the pioneers of Quantum Theory intended their "standard" Copenhagen Interpretation to be a smoke & mirrors explanation. But even the pow...
December 18, 2020 at 18:46
I just learned that there is such a thing as a Logotherapist. Maybe that would be a job opportunity for someone philosophically inclined. I don't know...
December 18, 2020 at 17:54
When my exploration found that Theosophy was mostly Sophistry, I abandoned that path, and went-on to explore more fruitful concepts. Blavatsky & Stein...
December 17, 2020 at 19:04
I don't know what your friend means by "nothing", but Quantum Theory seems to have dispensed with the ancient Atomic theory, with its irreducible soli...
December 17, 2020 at 18:42
True. Typically, scientists don't claim to reveal absolute Truths, but merely useful facts that we can rely on for practical applications. But many We...
December 17, 2020 at 00:59
I think the appeal of Science (Engineering; Technology) is primarily to those who think Abstractly & Reductively, while the appeal of Mysticism (Spiri...
December 17, 2020 at 00:23
In-form-ation, as the name implies, takes on many forms. In its generic form, I call it EnFormAction. My personal worldview is based on the concept th...
December 16, 2020 at 23:01
Yes. Human habits may begin as conscious voluntary behaviors, but later become subconscious involuntary (hard to quit) routines. Natural Laws are also...
December 16, 2020 at 18:30
Habits are repetitive patterns of behavior. Some physicists refer to "natural laws" as merely "habits", in order to avoid the implications of a Law-gi...
December 15, 2020 at 19:17
When Wilbur talks like a poetic mystic, he loses me. I'm more of a mundane Pragmatist than a sublime Mystic. Nevertheless, some of the implications of...
December 13, 2020 at 19:05
Yes. Human verbal language uses abstract symbols & vocalizations, while most animal non-verbal communication uses more concrete (physical) signs & sym...
December 13, 2020 at 18:43
I only recently became aware of Satler's site, espousing -- among other things -- "Both/And Logic". He seems to follow Ken Wilbur, and his Integral Th...
December 12, 2020 at 18:46
Verbal Language is an artifact. Even animals who can communicate ideas, orally or gesturally, must translate their internal flow of non-verbal feeling...
December 11, 2020 at 23:08