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Information is a mental concept. That is, it's based on the someone knowing the range of possibilities of a certain state of affairs involving things/entities.
by cristianpascu 10y ago
Information is a mental concept. That is, it's based on the someone knowing the range of possibilities of a certain state of affairs involving things/entities. For instance the top face of a dice. You know there are 6 possibilities, but at the moment, there's only one face at the top. Same with quantum particles, we attach properties to them, and these properties can have one value out of many. Measuring the specific value yields 'information' because you put that value in the context of the possible values you could find. The particle sent you a message, its properties.
But being related to reality, it's easy to be confused or rightfully associated with being a thing. I'd say that it's superposition of epistemology and ontology. You can't really separated to knower from the known.
- duaneb 10y agoSure, but everything qualitative is information. What remains? Is there any other way to think about reality than information? Seems kind of silly to pull apart information as somehow separate or lesser than reality. Saying "real teleportation" is somehow different than "just information" is nonsensical. It's like saying with quantum teleportation that the two particles aren't "really" entangled, they just have the same state. Well if you can't distinguish the state, what distinguishes them? They're literally the same until something distinguishes them. Or, to put it another way, "just" information teleporting isn't any less exciting. "real" teleportation doesn't hold up to much thought anyway; it's very difficult to ground it in physical terms. Is there much point assuming people think about teleportation that way?