Timeline for Is the concept of information nonphysical?
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| May 17, 2022 at 19:22 | comment | added | Don Foster | An entirely unsanctioned view is that information via Shannon is a broadly useful, descriptive accounting, but, if you look deeply enough, there is more utility in viewing information as an agency, the correlated counterpoise to the agency of energy. | |
| Apr 29, 2022 at 15:47 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | ... CWA system you choose, simply by asserting all missing information as false. Of course, this is known to have many tricky challenges if you don't have universal agreement as how to apply it. It is clear from your words that you have a particular heuristic that you are applying, one which is quite common and is recognized to not only be consistent with physicalism, but in fact I believe is the definition of a physicalist approach. Thus, your assumptions can reduce my entire answer to only the second paragraph, as that is the only reading that fits those assumptions. | |
| Apr 29, 2022 at 15:43 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @armand I am operating under the open world assumption(OWA) for this answer. Just because I cannot prove that there is immaterial information does not mean I can assume there is no immaterial information. From the word choice I am seeing you use, I'm getting the impression that you are discussing the topic from the perspective of a particular Closed World Assumption(CWA). As you have noticed, you can always reduce statements made with OWA to any particular... | |
| Apr 29, 2022 at 0:10 | comment | added | armand | how is the approach you choose relevant to what really happens? Of course if you assume there is immaterial information in the first place it's "very reasonable" to reach this same conclusion, yet the reasoning is totally flawed. But whatever "approach" you chose, what exemple of information not ingrained in a physical body can you give? How many minds have you demonstrably interacted with that weren't associated with a brain? | |
| Apr 28, 2022 at 23:21 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @armand It occurs whenever I choose to approach the world in a dualistic manner, in which one believes that there is some other substance besides matter, such as "mind." Information can be expressed in such abstract terms that it becomes very reasonable to claim this other non-matter substance contains information. | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 2:58 | comment | added | armand | "it is very common to implement this information via organization of physical objects" it is in fact **always ** the case, not very common. When was the last time you encountered information that wasn't somehow implemented in a physical subtract (A human brain, a sound or electromagnetic wave all being examples of such subtract) ? | |
| Jan 28, 2020 at 23:01 | vote | accept | A Raybould | ||
| Jan 22, 2020 at 15:13 | history | answered | Cort Ammon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |