ID commentary on animal minds (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 21:48 (3019 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: He says “everything is information”, just as you wrote earlier that information is “the source of life”. We spent a long time discussing this indiscriminate and confusing use of the word, and we agreed that we must distinguish between matter, information and the mechanism that extracts and processes the information. No need to go over all that again, is there?-You left out the maker or the source of the information as part of your list, while I agree that the interpretation mechanism is important also. Matter is not planning or informative information, as it contains static descriptive information. The main point of presenting the video is that quite a group of thinking folks feel the recognition of the role of information at the basis if reality is very important. But you are correct, he was evasive.