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Information and Volition



Information doesn't necessarily have to be in response to a "question". That would be a certain type of information, but doesn't define information itself. Anything that an organism percieves/senses/detects about itself or its environment, by whatever means, and then uses to make something happen is what I'm calling "information".
 
Similarly, human created complex systems are different from the naturally evolved ones. We have plugged certain aspects of our human consciousness into computer software, for exampole, and created machines to do a specified job, using some of that software, and the results (behavior or description of the system) are going to be different from the results of the evolution of systems in nature. A machine in our current technological development is a "simple" system (non-complex), but human consciousness is a property of an extremely complex system. What we have been doing is taking pieces of our own complexity and grafting them onto simple systems. I don't know what else to call the results except for chimera. It's fascinating, but can we even make comparisons? Will natural laws hold in such an unnatural process? In the long run, I suspect they will, but I'm not so sure about the "short run".
 
Judith