[Fis] Is quantum information the basis of spacetime?

[Rafael Capurro]

Andrei, maybe the concept of message as already used by Shannon and 
Weaver in specific engineering contexts (this must not be always the 
case) is more appropriate and also able to speak about 'information' as 
what is 'in' a message 'for' a receiver. Best. Rafael
> Hello Andrei - I am with you - sharing you sentiment. Information only 
> pertains to living organisms and entails some signals that help them 
> make a choice. A black hole makes no choices - it is ruled by the laws 
> of physics. Abiotic systems have no information. A book is a set of 
> signals that a reader can convert into information if they know the 
> language which the book is written. A book written in Urdu contains no 
> information for me other than this appears to be a set of signals that 
> contains information for a reader in the language in which this book 
> was written. Who reads a black hole. How does it contain information 
> that makes a difference. When we launch a satellite to orbit the earth 
> we do not say that the sun is informing the satellite how to behave. 
> The satellite is just following the laws of physics. It has no choice 
> and so it is not being informed. There are many different forms of 
> information (biotic and Shannon as found in the 2007 paper Propagating 
> Organization: An Inquiry by Kauffman, Logan et al. in Biology and 
> Philosophy 23: 27-45)      so we do not need to complicate things even 
> more by ascribing the laws of physics as the communication of 
> information.
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> On Nov 4, 2016, at 4:17 AM, Andrei Khrennikov 
> <andrei.khrennikov at lnu.se <mailto:andrei.khrennikov at lnu.se>> wrote:
>
>      Dear all,
> I want to comment so called information approach to physics, by 
> speaking with hundreds of leading experts
> in quantum foundations, I found that nobody can define rigorously the 
> basic term "information" which is so widely
> used in their theories and discussions, the answers are as 
> "information is the basic entity" which cannot be defined
> in other terms. Well, my impression is that without novel 
> understanding and definition of information all these "theories"
> are practically empty, well very good mathematical exercises. May be I 
> am too critical... But I spent so much time by trying
> to understand what people are talking about. The output is ZERO.
>
> all the best, andrei
>
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> Int. Center Math Modeling: Physics, Engineering, Economics, and 
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> ________________________________________
> From: Fis [fis-bounces at listas.unizar.es] on behalf of Gyorgy Darvas 
> [darvasg at iif.hu]
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2016 10:23 PM
> To: John Collier; fis
> Subject: Re: [Fis] Is quantum information the basis of spacetime?
>
> John:
> The article describes very really the conflicting attitudes. 
> Interesting to see the diverse arguments together.
> I agree, some think so, some do not. I do the latter, but this does 
> not make any matter.
> Gyuri
>
> On 2016.11.03. 19:52, John Collier wrote:
> Apparently some physicists think so.
>
> https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tangled-up-in-spacetime/?WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20161102
>
> John Collier
> Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate
> Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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