Re: [asa] Information and knowledge

*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*?

Bill, see the section on ontology that I dumped in from Floridi. Landauer's
is only one (materialist) approach and by no means is it widely accepted.

On 4/13/07, Bill Hamilton <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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Received on Fri Apr 13 09:59:26 2007