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At 03:14 PM 2014-07-15, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dear John,<br><br>
Thank you for this interesting perspective. Regarding the origin of
the<br>
"limited band width" of physical processes, could this have its
origin in<br>
some regularity other than circularity? For example, the "continuous
going<br>
back and forth" (the phrase is Botero's) between opposing attitudes
or<br>
states, alternately predominantly actual and potential?</blockquote><br>
My understanding of waves is that is how they work, also similar
phenomena like pendula and oscillating springs, not to mention
orbits.<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">All natural processes, then,
have a capacity for continuous information<br>
bearing. The problem is then the origin of /discreteness/, not only in
your<br>
countercase, which involves quantum particles, but at higher levels
of<br>
interactions between complex entities! For me, the only solution is
that<br>
continuity and discontinuity are properties of information which are<br>
not totally separate from one another.</blockquote><br>
I was thinking more of billiard ball collisions, not ones that depend on
quantum states. In my article, "Causation is the transfer of
information" (available on my web site) and expanded in
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<a href="http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/CollierJohn%20formatted.pdf">
Information, causation and computation</a> (2012.
<a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/books-books-21/detail/9814295477"><i>
Information and Computation:</a> Essays on Scientific and Philosophical
Understanding of Foundations of Information and Computation</i>, Ed by
Gordana Dodig Crnkovic and Mark Burgin, World Scientific)
</ul>I use a formal notion of an information channel to deal with
information transmission in classical systems. There are special problems
when the dynamics are not computable, but I explain how the idea can work
there as well. I do, however, need more formal proofs of sufficiency at
this time, though. Fortunately, my approach does not require computation
of the amount of information transferred, so I suppose it could be
infinite and still work, but I doubt it is infinite in real processes. I
suppose I will have to work that out at some point, one way or the
other.<br><br>
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Professor John
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Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South
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