George Levy writes:
>Along the line of Jorge Luis Borges a blackboard covered in chalk contains
>the library of Babel (everything) but no information. Similarly a white
>board covered with ink also contains no information.
>Interestingly, information is minimized or actually goes to zero when the
>world is too large as the plenitude, or too small. Information is maximized
>when the world is neither too large nor too small. We live in a Goldilock
>world.
Can we talk about knowledge or intelligence in a similar way? A rock is
completely stupid and ignorant. A human has some knowledge and some
intelligence (the Goldilocks case). God is said to be omniscient: infinitely
knowlegeable, infinitely intelligent. Doesn't this mean that God is the
equivalent of the blackboard covered in chalk, or the rock?
Stathis Papaioannou
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