Re: [asa] Information and knowledge

From: Bill Hamilton <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Apr 13 2007 - 09:26:11 EDT

Randy wrote

Information is physical. There is no information
without a physical medium.

Information is independent of its physical
embodiment.

Is this a necessary property of information? Or just part of Landauer's definition?

In any case one could say that the protein synthesized by a sequence embodies the information in that sequence, just in a different (transformed) form.

Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
248.652.4148 (home) 248.821.8156 (mobile)
"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31

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