Re: [Fis] Information as form conveyed by data

2011-10-07 Thread Gavin Ritz
This (b) model can be used to describe a range of activity from Shannon type communication to biological (DNA) activity, DNA and information have nothing to do with each other. but I am not sure it can be applied to chemical activity. That's what DNA is a molecule. To my un-informed way

Re: [Fis] Information as form conveyed by data

2011-10-07 Thread karl javorszky
On Form Conveyed By Data Among the terms in the question form conveyed by data the term data is the least ambiguous. We will doubtlessly agree that 1,2,3,... are data Whether a sequence 123456...16 is in a different form to a sequence e.g. 42315...11 is a subject of semantics. We know that