Is information a noun, or a verb?

Is information a noun, or a verb?

Is information a noun, or a verb? Can information sit in a computer’s hard disc? Or do we need to be clearer that data sits in a hard disc as static patterns of digits, while life goes on around it? This post, like the chicken-egg conundrum, challenges a misleading feature of information theory. It is worth writing about,…

Facts, feelings, and science

Facts, feelings, and science

A healthcare scientist once said, “There are facts, and there are feelings.” I doubt that it is such a clear distinction, and so I responded, “A free-thinking human being, including a scientist, chooses what counts as a fact! The neuroscientist Antonio Damasio showed that our power of choice depends on our feelings. It’s circular!” Which comes…

Humanity-in-diversity
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Humanity-in-diversity

A bit challenging… How to introduce you to new angles on old ideas? The New Science (of our experienced order emerging out of quantum chaos by feedback learning) changes the context of our lives. It truly should alter our hopes for something better as the climate crisis and conflicts force population shifts around the world….

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