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Notes on software and processes for collecting, analyzing and acting on data |
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Von Baeyer is a US physicist who has written a number of physics for amateurs. In this, he tackles the question of whether the world is information. I thought it might be a useful compliment to my ideas on systems, since interactions consist of information transfer. As such, information has no physical existence itself. Yet, as an emergent property of systems, it provides the substrate for meaning to exist. In the introduction, Von Baeyer points out that there are mathematical ways to measure the information in a message, yet no way to measure the meaning of a message. |
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Copyright 2003 by James J. Vornov |