(October 30, 2016 at 6:23 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(October 30, 2016 at 3:47 pm)goombah111 Wrote: or does it?In a way everything is information. A piece of rock is shifted by a river. From looking at the rock I can tell that the rock is washed down from up stream. So the position of the rock held information that I was able to interpret. No creature had any hand in the movement of the rock. You see your statement depends on your definition of information.
Yeah, I'm sure "information" has nothing to do with language or the feeble attempts of one species to describe what it observes. "Information" is right there in the world in itself apparently. Better yet, why not turn it around. "In the beginning was the word", except that it wasn't.
