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To: AndrewC
Information is only information in a context where a message is understandable in a common language.

A dictionary of a language that nobody can read anymore contains no information until you give it to someone who can read it.

Similarly DNA is written in a “language” that makes no sense at all outside the context of a ribosome and tRNA “translation key”.

If the “language” of the “translation key” were changed, the “information” would be changed. Thus there IS no unchangeable unambiguous “information” outside a context that gives it meaning.

57 posted on 03/25/2011 9:42:07 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: allmendream
Thus there IS no unchangeable unambiguous “information” outside a context that gives it meaning.

So information is whatever one makes up!? Sounds like a Darwinist.

58 posted on 03/25/2011 10:05:01 AM PDT by AndrewC
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