The Centrality of information (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, June 23, 2014, 15:41 (3806 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


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> dhw: I think the logic can be summed up quite neat by one simple fact:
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> Tony: We are able to distinguish the signal from the noise.
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> Signal within the noise implies purpose, the stronger the signal, the stronger the purpose..... Strong, clear, immaterial patterns that can be easily distinguished from the noise. 
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> What's more, those signals had to be in place from the earliest beginnings. That purpose had to exist before anything else, because if it did not, nothing else would have worked. ... The rules hold all the way to the first milliseconds of the beginnings of the universe, where our understanding of them breaks down.-Excellent way of putting it. Planned events from information, and we have the ability to find and interpret it. That also is highly significant in implying purpose.