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To: RightWhale
Maybe there's more than one opposite pole, more than one axis of symmetry. Doesn't work for the dialectic, of course. Null, chaos, which parallels maximum entropy?

I'd think the opposite of information would be chaos, and the opposite of data would be null, providing of course that you differentiate between information and data.

595 posted on 08/22/2003 3:04:26 PM PDT by tacticalogic (Controlled application of force is the sincerest form of communication.)
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To: tacticalogic
Turns out there is information in chaos. It might be that information is entirely subjective, which would make it malleable to scientific methods. By opposite pole is not meant mathematical opposite, but conceptual opposite or complement, the negate of information. Null would just be a location along the axis.
597 posted on 08/22/2003 3:11:14 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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