1i3i6-- wrote:Just as you have potential energy.
There is a concept of 'potential information'.
If i decide to make a video game and want to restrict character movement
to left, right, up and down. The set of all movements once I create the game can be defined as {left, right, up, down}
I can encode this with two bits :
00 - left
01 - right
10 - up
11 - down
Before I create the game, I can have information about it.
With all due respect, this is not information, in the ordinary sense of the word. This is an idea (or ideas). Information is a transfer of knowledge. Here you thought up a game, and decided with naming some attributes with names (00, etc.) This is not information, or ether. It is an idea you've developed.
Kris wrote:By this example, Information actually precedes the creation of the game and is tangible. No. Ideas preceded the creation, not information. Why call something something else?
What allowed me to encode the information? Something that could arbitrarily take on any value before I assigned it value : An ether. but more likely than ether, what really allowed you to encode the information was the prior advent of computers, your brain, your knowledge of games, your knowledge of directions, etc. etc.
There's an infinite number of binary strings is there not?
So, there you have it by example.. Real world example. So... you are denying that sea-urchins are real life examples, too? How can you claim such a denial to hold true? (I can play stupid too, you know.)
Shouldn't take much to conceptualize this beyond a finite frame.
A bit of background in information theory might help one parse this.
The example above puts it right out in front of you.
It's most definitely not gibberish.Yes, it is.
If you feel it is, try to deconstruct it and/or find its flaws. there are so many flaws, that it is impossible to deconstruct it. First of all, it is not a constructed entity. You throw about numbers and facts, and claim they are connected. Maybe they are, but you are not showing how. Your text is a haphazardly thrown-together miazma of unrelated facts, left that way. I can't deconstruct something that has no structure.
In order to do so, you should be equipped and versed in matters of information theory. If you are not, you're going to have problems. false again. My only problem is that you are trying to involve me in a Quixotic duel. No such go, my friend. When you present something that has sense, fine, I'll agree or disagree. But what you present here is not something that people can agree or disagree with. It can be assigned no truth value. It is miazma, gibberish. It is a senseless text.
I utilize philosophy as a coarse grain tool. Once you have a rough shape and outline, it's best to put it away in favor of more fine-grained tools so as to not muddle or perpetually muddle that which you are trying to conceive.
It would seem that this is nonsensical to you because you're not using the right tools to analyze it. There are no right tools to analyze the theory you present. A deep understanding of set theory and information theory are what's needed. I'm only trying to discuss this in a way that is more easily understood. sorry, but you failed. Please discuss it in a way which is not easily understood. Then maybe you'll find people on this forum to understand and agree with you.
It should be now and if you find a flaw or issue, please post it. my only issue with your text is that it has no reasonable thought, no logical connection, and no structure to the idea you present. Other than that, it's okay. You use proper grammar.Your sentences are put together well. I haven't noticed any mistakes you made. It is my opinion that you may be a student of literature or of philosophy, and either you have made a bet, or else you've chosen this as a school project, or else for a laugh, your aim is to sound erudite and try to convince people to agree or disagree with gibberish. Your language skills are too well developed for you to not realize you are creating nonsense texts. So it's a joke, or a bet, the object of which is to see how long you can get people to string along. Well, Kris, you lost the bet; I was not fooled for even a second. Sorry.
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In summary:
Kris, you wrote:
A deep understanding of set theory and information theory are what's needed. I'm only trying to discuss this in a way that is more easily understood.
My reply: Sorry, Kris, but you failed. Your simplification efforts, I am afraid to say, reduced the theory (if it exists in the first place) to gibberish, to nonsense. If I may make one suggestion, and I mean it seriously: Please discuss it in a way which is NOT easily understood. Then maybe you'll find people on this forum to understand you and agree with you.
Ignorance is power.