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What is an information?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by IamNed, Mar 5, 2006.

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    I define an information to be a 0 or a 1

    How do you define an information?or a piece of finite info?
     
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  2. QuickBuck

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    Better if you asked what is truth. Is it 1? Is it still 1 on a quantum computer? Isn't it really any value other than 0? Consequently, isn't it whatever we believe it to be, even when that contradicts someone else's perception of what is true.

    Lo, if you had asked was is truth.
     
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    Well a 0 or a 1 is really a binary digit. I think information is any piece of data or fact that can be used in a beneficial way.

    Skinny
     
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    The dictionary says "Knowledge derived from study, experience, or instruction." Of course, without context, information is meaningless.
     
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    Most questions do not have an absolute "truth". There are only theories about issues. However some theories can be said to be truer than others. The best measurement of this is how much a theory helps us in "real life".

    :::Notting:::
     
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    Anything that is not nothing, although nothing in itself is something.
     
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    In the words of the Virgin Mary..Cum again??? :confused:
     
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    anoldsmobile is asking how information is defined, and it isn't an easy question to answer. 0 and 1 is correct if you're talking about a machine or computer, but for organic organisms I have no idea. I suppose anything which can be a form of communication, and that could be many things, like radio waves, light, heat, you name it.
     
    tesla, Mar 6, 2006 IP