Peter St. John wrote:
Ah, great, I wanted something like the reference to Bremermann,
thanks. The Wiki item cites no references (!) but the discussion page
does. The item
http://www.gwu.edu/~umpleby/recent_papers/2004_physical_relationships_among_matter_energy_information_umpleby.htm
<http://www.gwu.edu/%7Eumpleby/recent_papers/2004_physical_relationships_among_matter_energy_information_umpleby.htm>
looks just like what I want, but surely a physicist has written
something along these lines??
Bremerman was a physicist. My original encounter with the limit/him
was in a
fascinating book published in the early 80s called "The Book of
Ignorance", a
collection of articles on what we do not and/or cannot know that we
might like
to.
A general google brings up quite a bit on it. Here is a brief summary:
http://www.kisekaeworld.com/Intractable/intractable.html?issue9.html
rbw
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