From: John K Clark (johnkc@well.com)
Date: Sun Jun 28 1998 - 21:45:04 MDT
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VirgilT7@aol.com Wrote:
>My first thoughts about what someone means about information would
>be that they refer to a set of facts about a thing, not a series of
>bits.
No reason both things couldn't be true, information and facts are connected,
of course you'll need a language to connect the two, but that doesn't mean
you'll need a human, consciousness or even intelligence to do it. Consider
the Genetic code, the nucleotide triplet CAU in messenger RNA is information
and it means something, the next amino acid in a protein a cell is making
should be histidine. I grant you this is only true in the context (language)
of life as it just happen to develop on the planet Earth, the Genetic code is
as arbitrary as any human language.
>frankly the only defenses [ to explain the existence of both God and
>evil ] I think have a shot are the "beyond current knowledge" or
>"free will" defenses.
The term "Free Will" as is commonly used is not a myth, it's not even wrong,
it's pure unadulterated gibberish.
John K Clark johnkc@well.com
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