There is too much.. for the time I give to this.! I am aware a few of you really want to understand.. truth should be like that.. available to everyone.. hence my Wikipedia involvement. I truly and deeply despise ignorance and particularly when its deliberate. That's a justice issue and I honestly believe I have a responsibility to tell what I know and yes invite anyone to tell me I'm wrong or out with the fairies etc..
There is a much 'bigger picture' to all this.. WHY.. am I discovering stuff that should already be there in our education system, open for discussion and question without cover-up or fear..
Well we don't actually have "truth'.. the best we can do is what I call "verified knowledge".. There is an underlying truth to knowledge, its just that we can never say we actually have it.. However truth can and would be known to an infinite mind.. and if that mind chose to reveal it.. please just hold that thought.
I am now reading James Gleick's "The Information".. he is a very good writer and does his homework very thoroughly. BUT.. How does he end up concluding (haven't finished the book yet but this was given on a radio interview with the author)
INFORMATION (now) = UNCERTAINTY
Whatever he means by information it's not 'semantic information'.. but surely he knows that.. a couple of quotes..
pp44 (In regard to the deciphering of cuneiform mathematical tablets)
"They were like maps of a mysterious city. This was the key to deciphering them, finally; the ordered chaos that seems to guarantee the the presence of meaning."
'ordered chaos' is an oxymoron.. 'ordered' means by definition not chaotic..?
Here's a hint.. of the problem for the naturalist..
pp32 "The paleographer has a unique bootstrap problem. Its only writing that makes its own history possible".
Pointing to my much earlier conclusion.. semantic information is recursive.
next time.
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