I read Caroll's article and wind up with more questions about his statement. First, what does he consider non-physical? Thoughts in our head, dreams. But those of the biochemical interaction fizzing about our neurology, as electrons. He never defines non physical, so what not just say that everything is matter, and when matter moves, its energy, and when its perforated with a pattern, that our neurochemistry recognizes, its information? Or should we define electrons, photons and neutrinos as non physical? I don't get what his point is? How reductionist (which is philosophy not physics) does he want us all to get? This is what I suspect he is going for. To be the Dawkins of physics.
-----Original Message----- From: freqflyer07281972 <thismindisbud...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tue, Dec 3, 2013 9:17 pm Subject: Question for Bruno Regarding the question of whether information is physical. Hey everyone, Here is a question for Bruno (and anyone else who wants to chime in) -- I came across this post over at Sean Carroll's Preposterous Universe blog, wherein he seems to be claiming that the relationship between information, entropy, and physical processes is pretty well in the bag, i.e. it is well understood by physicists and it seems that the concept of information can be cashed out entirely in terms of physical processes. What does this do to your thought experiment and your Platonic orientation towards questions of information theory? How would you go about explaining the deep relationship between entropy, information, and the physical evolution of the universe? Cheers, Dan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
