Xref: utzoo comp.ai:2915 talk.philosophy.misc:1738 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!teknowledge-vaxc!sworking From: sworking@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Scott Workinger) Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Keywords: Matter, Energy, Information, Knowledge, Values, Free Will Message-ID: <26161@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> Date: 15 Dec 88 20:45:47 GMT References: <562@metapsy.UUCP> <2732@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <563@metapsy.UUCP> <1841@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <42571@linus.UUCP> Reply-To: sworking@teknowledge-vaxc.UUCP (Scott Workinger) Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA Lines: 16 In article <42571@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Kort) writes: >(There is at least one >school of physics which proposes that the Universe is composed >of matter, energy, and information.) Having come to the same conclusion, independently, I would be very interested in seeing a reference on this. (Another way of looking at it is that everything that exists is categorizable as matter, energy, and structure, where structure is equivalent to information.) Some people of a more philosophical bent would say that it is the hole in the center of the wheel that makes it useful. Scott