On 3/9/2021 2:00 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 6:00 AM Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com
<mailto:jasonre...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:41 AM Lawrence Crowell
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Nothingness is a paradoxical thing. Does nothingness exist? If
so, then by having existential properties it is not pure
nothingness. If nothingness does not exist then there must
exist something. In a sense God is the antithesis of
nothingness and in a sense shares the same paradoxical issue.
There is a strange and paradoxical sort of identity between
/nothing/ and /everything/, particularly as it relates to
information theory. Insofar as the total set of all possibilities
has zero information content.
Even if it tells us what is not possible? I think you're getting in
over your head. What kind of "possible" to you mean? Simple not
self-contradictory? Nomological? Or what?
A random message string can contain zero information, but still exist
-- written on a piece of paper, for example.
I agree with your basic point, but a random string carries maximum
information, per Shannon. That's why maximally compressed string looks
random; although you can't really define random in the information
theoretic sense for finite strings.
Brent
This idea that zero information equates to 'nothing' is just an
elementary confusion of categories.
This is the main subject of Russell Standish's book: Theory of
Nothing: https://www.hpcoders.com.au/nothing.html
<https://www.hpcoders.com.au/nothing.html>
That is why Russell got so many things wrong in this book.
Bruce
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