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- From: onar@hsr.no (Onar Aam)
- Subject: Re: Information in a system.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.104221.28986@hsr.no>
- Sender: news@hsr.no
- Organization: Rogaland University Centre
- References: <1992Nov14.160720@IASTATE.EDU> <9LPDuB14w165w@kalki33> <1992Nov17.171957@IASTATE.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:42:21 GMT
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- >> And the
- >> first source of electric power to just hook itself up to your house and
- >> start generating 60hz, 117 VAC!
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- > the computer runs on AC, but the creatures do not. They are virtual data
- >structures, and as such exist only in theory: they have no form and thus use no
- >energy.
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- Uhhm... I don't quite agree with you on that. The structures are for real, but
- they are independent of the medium and dimensions in which they occur. That's
- what information is all about. If I continue your logic then the information in
- genes doesn't "really" exist. Genes are merely a bunch of atoms. See? Information
- is by nature an abstract concept.
- Also the order which arose in your program is very much associated with energy.
- In computers a clockcycle of the processor is associated with an energy unit.
- (Hence the frequency of the processor is associated with the effect) The order
- in your program probably did not arise immediately since the process towards order
- is iterative. So instead of spending energy directly, it spent processor time
- which in this case is roughly equivalent with energy.
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