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> I suspect the same, but I think there is tremendous value in taking a cosmic step back and seeing everything through the lens of information. It's the most re
by Warwolt 4y ago
> I suspect the same, but I think there is tremendous value in taking a cosmic step back and seeing everything through the lens of information. It's the most reductionist neutral approach to the universe I can conceive us at this point in my life.
What is your definition of "information"? I view the concept of computation so deeply entwined with consciousness that I fail to see how it can be meaningfully applied to physically phenomena that would be completely independent of a subject that can determine something to be a computation (i.e. the mathematical intuitionistic understanding),so I'm interested in what you mean by information and computation.
- epgui 4y agoI'm not going to attempt to define information (because I think it's beyond my ability), but what I mean by it is what I think "information" means as it relates to physical phenomena, for example the black hole information paradox [1], or Shannon's entropy [2], or constructor theory [3], or calculating-space [4], or digital physics [5]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory) [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculating_Space [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics