On 21 January 2014 17:22, Richard Ruquist <[email protected]> wrote: > The notion that computation produces information contradicts the notion > that information is conserved >
I suggested that computation *transforms* information, not *produces* it. Most logical operations lose information (NAND does, reducing two inputs to one output, and all (non-reversible) computation can be done with NAND gates I believe). What a computation does is make explicit information that was implicit in the input, generally throwing away some of it in the process. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
