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From: vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech,rec.arts.sf-lovers,rec.mag
Subject: Re: Ed Fredkin
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Date: 20 Mar 88 17:35:21 GMT
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In article <1441@ur-tut.UUCP> srg2@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Stacey Greenstein) writes:
>In article <3829@chinet.UUCP> rissa@chinet.UUCP (Patricia O Tuama) writes:
>>The universe is a computer, designed to answer a question.
>>Why does this sound so familiar?
>>				              .
>>				t r i s h a   o t u a m a

Let's say I take all the information in all the encyclopedieas and
reference books and catalogs of biochemical compounds and make and ASCII
text file out of them, and then come up with an umpteen-zillion long
decimal number that represents this long text file, and then construct a
ruler one inch long calibrated to the umpteen-zillionth of an inch.  I
can now specify a single point in an inch representing all the knowledge
in the world. . .

Information is not meaning
Meaning is at least information
Nothing is determined
There is no answer

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| Cliff Joslyn, Professional Cybernetician 
| Systems Science Department, SUNY Binghamton, New York, but my opinions
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