Re: Bruno's argument

From: 1Z <peterdjones.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:20:24 -0700

Brent Meeker wrote:

> I'm considering rejecting the idea that a computation can be
> distinguished from noise by some internal characteristic of the
> computation. I don't think you can make the idea of "information hidden
> in noise" well defined. By Shannon's measure noise is information.

You can easily distinguish computation from noise using counterfactuals


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