Monday, March 28, 2011, 12:05:54 AM, Gavin wrote: > Even at the most basic level of an organism's communication with its > environment. There is no discernable information exchange. Every single one > of our senses is an energy transduction structure-processing unit. All we do > is transduce say light and sound energy to electrical energy. This much is > pretty well established.
I think you need to think about what the light and sound, on one hand -- or rather one side of the transduction -- and electrical energy, on the other side, have in common. These are carriers for patterns, and it is the patterns that are carried by light, sound, electricity, whatever, that constitute the information. So the informational analysis is a "higher level" one, relative to matter and energy, a useful (to some, at least) way of looking at patterns embodied in material/energetic processes. -- Robin Faichney <http://www.robinfaichney.org/> _______________________________________________ fis mailing list [email protected] https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
