Guess I was trying to say something profound, but missed the mark a bit.

Like Guich Koock would say when someone asked him how he got his name, "My 
father raised dogs and by the time I came along, all the good names were 
taken."  Would have liked to have had  time as my deminsion, but that was 
allready taken.

Can you seperate the content from the information?  Does the information 
contain the one  bit (yes/no) answer as well as the three page question?

How do we reference information so we can find it?  Why doesn't Google use 
the Duwey Decimal Syatem?

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerhard Fiedler" <lists@connectionbrazil.com>
To: <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Light running backward?


> Bill & Pookie wrote:
>
>> So far information has two dimensions, state and time, would location be 
>> a
>> third?    "X marks the spot" for buried treasure would be an example of
>> this.
>
> If I understand you correctly, it seems that location (the description of 
> a
> location) is just a form of what you call "state".
>
> I think it's a rather complex thing to try to measure information in
> general. What we generally call "information" only becomes "informative" 
> in
> a specific context. How to measure the amount of information in the
> context? It takes about 10 bits to store any location on this planet with 
> 1
> degree resolution, but this "information" requires a lot of context to
> actually lead you to the spot it describes. How many bits are in the
> context?
>
> Gerhard
>
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