"Encoded" implies there is some "decoding" so the information refers to
something else, not to the encoded information itself.
Brent
On 11/15/2024 3:30 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 11:30 PM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
*I would say that the best definition of "physical" that I know of
is that something is physical if and only if it is capable, at
least in theory, of encoding information.*
Sounds a bit tautological to me: Something is "physical" if it is
capable of encoding information physically. It does not follow that
information is physical. There is probably an infinite amount of
information around that is not encoded, physically or in any other
way: the number of ants in my backyard; the number of bees in that
swarm; the average BMI of my friends; etc; etc.
Bruce.
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