The world-creating Potential of the Big Bang Singularity was transformed (enformed) into Life, the Universe, and Everything by the power of EnFormActi...
Yeah! That's the ticket : "Inversion" -- a mental flip of the coin. When I said that Shannon's Information substituted "generality" for "specificity",...
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...
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...
I agree with your version, but what I said was that "by reducing specificity" -- which increases generality -- Shannon's definition of Information "ma...
See my reply to above. :smile: Information : For humans, Information has the semantic quality of aboutness , that we interpret as meaning. In computer...
Charged with maximizing the flow of communication, Shannon was interested in measuring the carrying capacity of the system, not the meaningful content...
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...
Yes, The focus of exploratory Science is on the reductive details . . . piece by piece; pixel by pixel. Since the modern analytical materialist scienc...
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...
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...
But "information" is "knowledge" . . . and much more. Your narrow reductive definition of "Information" omits most of its overall "generic" meaning, j...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
Since my understanding of the universal role of Information in the universe diverges radically from most particular & reductive mainstream concepts, I...
Ah . . . I remember the joys of the simple-minded particular faith of Reductionism! Sadly, I have abandoned the simplicity of near nothingness, for th...
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...
I assume the referenced question is about "how the mechanism of organism works". And your "definition" makes the most obvious distinction between Mech...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As you said, the ontological status of "Information" is a complex topic with many aspects. In order to understand my personal attempt at clarification...
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...
If you have any interest in a Philosophical framework & definition of "Information", the linked thread below discusses the Epistemological & Ontologic...
That's exactly the point of the Enformationism thesis. Generic (general, universal, creative) Information is Meta-physical. But it has the power to tr...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Yes. Exactly how & why a mental measurement "causes" changes in physical objects is still a mystery, and a topic of debate among Scientists, Philosoph...
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...
Like all forms of energy, you can see the effects of fields, but not the fields themselves. They exist as immaterial mathematical statistical relation...
I don't think the pioneers of Quantum Theory intended their "standard" Copenhagen Interpretation to be a smoke & mirrors explanation. But even the pow...
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...
When my exploration found that Theosophy was mostly Sophistry, I abandoned that path, and went-on to explore more fruitful concepts. Blavatsky & Stein...
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...
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...
I think the appeal of Science (Engineering; Technology) is primarily to those who think Abstractly & Reductively, while the appeal of Mysticism (Spiri...
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...
Yes. Human habits may begin as conscious voluntary behaviors, but later become subconscious involuntary (hard to quit) routines. Natural Laws are also...
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...
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...
Yes. Human verbal language uses abstract symbols & vocalizations, while most animal non-verbal communication uses more concrete (physical) signs & sym...
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...
Verbal Language is an artifact. Even animals who can communicate ideas, orally or gesturally, must translate their internal flow of non-verbal feeling...
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