I thought you were asleep. Everything can be understood as an evolving process of integrating information. But only the most complex forms of this can...
This is correct, but would be an anthropocentric definition of information. The theories I mention above imply a panpsychism. From the point of view o...
It matters a huge deal. When art is undefined it fragments into many things, such as what has happened in post modernism. When it was defined to some ...
Hi Mersi, A lot of your questions are answered in the OP and on the first page of the thread. The world is mind dependent. We can not separate the two...
:up: For sure, for me, every painting is that masterpiece - the one just beyond my reach, that takes everything out of me, that is the best I can do, ...
If we live in a space where everything feels such forces, how would you know whether the forces / feelings are intrinsic to you, or are ubiquitous, an...
We still don't know what those forces / feelings are, but we know we all feel them. Do they exist intrinsic to us, or do we exist in a space where eve...
Matter feels forces acting on it. :up: That cause it to self organize. Maybe, or maybe this is not a very wise move. :sad: Maybe we just trap ourselve...
The Systems Theory kind. It is hard to please them all indeed! I think you have made a good start. You still need to explain emotions, and as you may ...
Thanks for that, I hear it mentioned a lot, but I don't understand the math. Perhaps somebody can explain? Landauer's principle It holds that "any log...
Yes, there is only ever a moment of consciousness - the stage. Life can be broken down to progressive moments of consciousness lasting 1-400ms, as we ...
That is not bad, but I would not break out the champagne just yet. You are going to have a hard time getting this over the line. Wouldn't it be simple...
Do you think a lobotomy would change your mind about this? It is all about emergence, from the moment you are born to what you are at present is one c...
All that exists for us is moments of consciousness. This is the interaction I'm trying to get at. Information is the change experienced in these momen...
:smile: Ha, we are an evolving process of self organization. Which to my mind is equal to consciousness. It is not I think therefore I am, but I am co...
Yeah, the cerebellum would represent us, whilst a more primitive mind would have resolved the external world to a coloured in and symbolized world, du...
I take the Enactivist approach, which suggests a mind ( as we know it ) evolved after the symbology of externalities was resolved. So we interact with...
What do you think of my description aside from the equation. The comment below the question. I'm not too sure about this, but something of the sort wo...
Yes I understand. But I find such equations frustrating, as no information can be retrieved from entropy which is chaotic. The information retrieved f...
The obvious answer is - show me something that is not information? It took me several months, perhaps six months to warm to the idea that "everything"...
:grimace: Can you please explain the logic that underlies this expression? Yes, here we are talking about nonequilibrium, irreversible, dissipative sy...
Fascinating! There are methods of persuasion, as employed by Cambridge Analytica, but to find a theory of persuasion, would be quite somthing else. I ...
A "self" as you are describing ( We ), is an emergent phenomena. It firstly needs language, then a whole host of socially derived ideation, such as to...
I think you are getting at the mind dependent nature of the world? I think that is the case, and I like the Enactivist version of it - slightly more s...
Quantum Theory of Ur Objects and General Relativity - Martin Kober Institut f¨ur Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit¨at, Max-von-Lau...
Thanks for that info, and welcome to the forum. :smile: Quite a lot of similar such studies / evidence from various fields was presented in the what i...
Who knows? Kauffmans definition of information is: "We therefore conclude that constraints are information and… information is constraints… We use the...
I think he was just not very prominent. :sad: This is a great argument against Shannon's information definition, in that it treats information as fini...
I'm not sure. His paper is called MacKay, D. Information, Mechanism and Meaning; MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, USA, 1969. I can not find a free version. T...
Ha, ha, I happen to be an idealist also, though now an enactivist. Information is fundamental. To know anything at all, you have to have information a...
Regardless of how you personally might relate to the idea that matter and energy and information are equivalent, there is a growing trend toward this ...
Information is the fundamental quantity / quality, perhaps non quantifiable observable, that has the potential to completely reshape the materialist p...
No that does not follow, imo. You will have to contend with a growing realization that everything is information. To some extent that would be the cas...
There are always divergent vested interests at play. I'm sure mathematicians, physicists, and engineers would have found Shannon's quantification of i...
If you read the OP, and watch the video, you will become acquainted with Systems Theory. It sounds complicated but is really quite simple. Order in th...
Sounds like naïve realism to me? :chin: It is a sadness to see, given we know that everything is information, that there are still people who are clue...
Information is the interaction of form. Or, information = evolutionary interaction. Not for information philosophers. The result is clearer by the mom...
Now we are looking at evolution as a function of information, where information is the interaction of systems - similar to mechanical necessity, but a...
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