Re: What is Information?
Very interesting response. I like that "List" concept...I've never heard it put that way...Is what you're saying any relation to Karl Popper's ideas? I've only read a bit of him, but it seems similar, this idea that the Truth is the most likely thing...
The only thing I can say about the connection between information and The Soul is that: Any assertion about the methods by which human thought apprehends the world, is an assertion about the make-up of a human--this includes the idea: Man has no soul, he is a complicated machine which is capable of organizing his observations into lists of hypotheses and following the most likely. What human understanding is, is based on what they are… if what they are is material, that changes the possibility of true knowledge to zero. Perhaps you would like to say: THIS is how our reason works, no matter what our consciousness might consist of, but that’s just good ol’analytical evasion techniques.
I need to read your post again to understand it. Thanks again.
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