Why conversational equations and emergence (General)

by David Turell , Tuesday, April 01, 2014, 15:36 (3672 days ago) @ David Turell


> >Romansh: What if thought and substance are one?
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> David: How many calories are in that sentence you just thought up? Expressed ideas have no inherent energy, but they are created by energy. The DNA code is information, not energy, but the coding process is expressed by energy using molecules and ions.- Information is not material, has no substance:-http://www.mercatornet.com/connecting/view/13830#-"When a paper document is shredded, is information being destroyed? Does it matter whether the shredded document is a copy of an un-shredded document and can be replaced?• Likewise, when a digital picture is taken, is digital information being created or merely captured?• The information on a DVD can be measured in bits. Does the amount of information differ if the DVD contains the movie Braveheart or a collection of randomly generated digital noise?• When a human dies, is experiential information lost? If so, can birth and experience create information?• If you are shown a document written in Japanese, does the document contain information whether or not you know Japanese? What if, instead, the document is written in an alien language unknowable to man?The purpose of such questions is to help us see that information is real even though it is immaterial. One consequence of information being immaterial is that it is not measured in any way commensurate with material nature."