Re: The physical limits of computation

2024-01-21 Thread Brent Meeker
On 1/21/2024 5:40 PM, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 7:03 PM Brent Meeker wrote: >>> /If I write "tamaontietoa" is it information or gibberish?  Is it about something? / >> There's no reason it couldn't be both, Shannon would say it's definitely

Re: The physical limits of computation

2024-01-21 Thread Jason Resch
On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 1:46 AM 'scerir' via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Interesting quote about all that (and information) > Frank Wilczek: "Information is another dimensionless quantity that plays a > large and increasing role in our description of the world.

Re: The physical limits of computation

2024-01-21 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 7:03 PM Brent Meeker wrote: >>> * If I write "tamaontietoa" is it information or gibberish? Is it >> about something? * >> > > >> There's no reason it couldn't be both, Shannon would say it's > definitely information, > > * >No he wouldn't.* > Of course Shannon

Re: The physical limits of computation

2024-01-21 Thread Brent Meeker
On 1/21/2024 12:00 PM, John Clark wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 2:31 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > /If I write "tamaontietoa" is it information or gibberish?  Is it about something? / There's no reason it couldn't be both, Shannon would say it's definitely information, No he

Re: The physical limits of computation

2024-01-21 Thread Brent Meeker
On 1/21/2024 5:15 AM, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 7:27 PM Brent Meeker wrote: // /> 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

Re: The physical limits of computation

2024-01-21 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 2:31 PM Brent Meeker wrote: > * If I write "tamaontietoa" is it information or gibberish? Is it > about something? * > There's no reason it couldn't be both, Shannon would say it's definitely information, but he doesn't care if that information contains a great

Re: The physical limits of computation

2024-01-21 Thread Brent Meeker
That assumes that there is something that the physical state is /about/. If I write "tamaontietoa" is it information or gibberish?  Is it about something?  All the science of information is about encoding and decoding; it is not only substrate independent, it is content independent. Brent On

Re: The physical limits of computation

2024-01-21 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 7:27 PM Brent Meeker wrote: * > 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".* > In 1948 Claude Shannon gave us an operational