Re: Bruno's argument

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:52:49 -0700

1Z wrote:
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> Brent Meeker wrote:
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>>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.
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> You can easily distinguish computation from noise using counterfactuals

Can you make that more concrete - an example perhaps?

Brent Meeker

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