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Pedantically, the state of any material object is just information and should be transferable over a network?
by pveierland 9y ago
Pedantically, the state of any material object is just information and should be transferable over a network?
- yesenadam 9y agoNo.."Chaos theory has taught us" that it would take an infinite amount of information to precisely-enough specify 'state'.
- pveierland 9y agoDoesn't this depend on the universe being not entirely discrete? If the universe is entirely discrete, then it should be possible to represent the exact state of it? In any case, I don't think it follows that an infinite amount of information is necessary to describe e.g. a dog to the extent to which it could be transferred and there being no functional difference to the copy, even though the exact state is not represented.