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Author Topic:   Information Theory and Intelligent Design.
Chiroptera
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Message 14 of 102 (385025)
02-13-2007 10:16 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by DarkEnergon
02-12-2007 11:41 PM


DNA - the most famous non-language
Heh. I like this one:
Linguistics shows that DNA is literally a language containing four letters....
Actually, at most DNA is a medium in which "messages" in some "language" is stored.
But, presuming he means the process of transcription utilizes a language, I'll believe it when someone translates Hamlet into this "language".

This world can take my money and time/ But it sure can't take my soul. -- Joe Ely

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Chiroptera
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Message 57 of 102 (385160)
02-14-2007 12:51 PM
Reply to: Message 56 by Percy
02-14-2007 12:32 PM


Re: Information theory...
Well, to be technical, "writing onto" the disk will change the physical state of the disk in some way, presumably by putting the atoms in different physical states. If these different states have different energy levels, then storing information on the disk will impart (or take away) some amount of energy which, according to E-mc2, will change the mass of the disk.
However, this change in mass will be negligible (literally -- I doubt it would be measurable even with the most sensitive measuring instruments). Besides, if one is having a theoretical discussion then one can posit a storage medium where the "on" and "off" state of each bit-storing element has exactly the same energy.

This world can take my money and time/ But it sure can't take my soul. -- Joe Ely

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