On Mon, May 27, 2013 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you heard about Gödel's theorem? >
Yes. > >> The only difference between objective and subjective is that in one > case information is universally available and in the other case the > information only exists in 3 pounds of grey goo inside one particular bone > box. > > > There are other important difference. You can doubt the whole objective > part, but you can't doubt the whole subjective part. > Because you only have direct experience with the information inside your bone box and direct experience beats the conclusions from any theory; thus the greater the information you can get inside that box the broader your experience and the more the subjective will resemble the objective. > Also, the term "information" has many different meaning, from something > you can measure (Shannon) to something interpreted by some machine, or > other entities. > I agree that there is no mathematical way to measure the quality of information in a way comparable to how Shannon measured information's quantity. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
