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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
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