Re: [Fis] Physics of computing

2012-03-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Mar 2012, at 15:56, Stanley N Salthe wrote: Bruno -- As an idealist, I think you have it all backward! I am not an idealist. Just a logician and an inquirer. I show that if you believe in a sufficient amount of arithmetic, and in the assumption that your (generalized) brain(*) is

Re: [Fis] [Fwd: Re: Physics of computing]--Plamen S.

2012-03-18 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
I'm with Bob on this to a point. Too often I see people giving information an existential status that it is not due. As you will recall, in my terms, information is simply a way of speaking about that which identifies cause and adds to knowledge, knowledge is simply a way a way of speaking