At 08:46 PM 4/21/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>The "information" that Dembski is dealing with isn't really Shannon
>information, although it is related. You are right, though, that a useful
>theory must recognize that multiple copies of the information are
>significant, because the extra copies can be modified without losing the
>original information. Dembski fails to take account of that aspect, as far
>as I can see. I have only read the central chapters that contain his core
>argument.
I haven't read the Dembski book completely either, but it seems like "extra
copies" of information could very easily be included in the probability
framework that he has laid out. Whether he has spelled this out explicitly
I don't know, but it seems to be a subset or at the very least a
straightforward extension.
Vince
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