Sunday, January 3, 2010

What is information?

"Information is a correlation btw two things produced by a lawful process... Causes leave effects

Symbols, their arrangement, somehow preserve the information that existed in the real world phenomena. 



Intelligence only makes sense when there is a goal.

"in our daily lives we all predict and explain other ppls behaviour from what we think they know and what we think. They want. "

Information ... There is physical matter. Arrangement of matter, due to causes. Properties of this matter causes the changing of "internal state" .. The arrangement, or the information is retained in another arrangement of matter. This internal arrangement is how we store information.

What are symbols? I think they are different from internal storage of information. The pattern of ones and zeroes representing a number that u feed into pins of a circuit - is this pattern of zeroes and ones a symbol? Perhaps a symbol is a configuration of matter or state. How does symbol relate to information?

Symbols both stand for something and mechanically cause things to happen.

Do we start off with a set of beliefs and desires which are not learned? if so, how are they encoded ?

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