While I sometimes feel as if I speak a different language than many of you, I
believe that my initial notes for a book on creativity may shed some light on
the ongoing current discussion. Simply put, information is what a machine has
the capacity to produce. However, a machine cannot produce
Kauffman
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> >> Dear Steve,
> >> You write
> >> "But in later years he eventually recognized that the possibility of
> >> relating propositions in language to facts concerning th
I would like to contribute to the current ongoing discussion regarding the
relation between information and meaning. I agree with Dai Griffiths and others
that the term information is a problematic construction. Since it is often used
as an example of fitting the details of a specific worldly
in an instant, and
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> Like an Indivisible Centre Stand
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> At once Surrounding all Eternity.
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> Twas not a sphere
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> Yet did appear
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> One infinite. Twas somewhat everywhere,
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> And though it had a Power to see
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the one proposed in the material that was
> distributed.
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> I feel that the role and significance of instabilities in the physical world,
> particularly life processes, has not been adequately expounded and that we
> may only be beginning to understand them.
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> I hope this help
I hope the following passage I’ve written on Nagarjuna will be of use for this
discussion on the nature of self. The passage is from a manuscript I’ve just
completed on silence and postmodernism.
Nagarjuna’s thinking is deeply conversant with silence and with the use of
paradox as well. For