Re: The physical limits of computation

2024-01-20 Thread 'scerir' via Everything List
"In some respects, information is a qualitatively different sort of entity from all others in terms of which the physical sciences describe the world. It is not, for instance, a function only of tensor fields on spacetime (as general relativity requires all physical quantities to be), nor is it

Re: The physical limits of computation

2024-01-20 Thread Brent Meeker
The problem with this is that information, like complexity, has no physically definite operational meaning.  You can't go into the lab and ask what's the information content of "this". Brent On 1/19/2024 10:46 PM, 'scerir' via Everything List wrote: Interesting quote about all that (and