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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (24208)	6/30/2006 3:58:05 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 28931

you claimed it is 'someplace,' and that it got discovered from that place. I don't believe that is what I claimed. Information (or ideas) are someplace if they exist, but they aren't anyplace if they don't exist yet or if the information has been completely forgotten. it is in the brain only. Or that it moves around. Like storage on paper or something, What I have tried to write several time is that there may be more than one copy of the information. If it exists at all there is at least one copy, but it could be copied multiple times in many ways with different fidelities. I think you are trying to say that an idea is a sort of active-information that has meaning outside it's representation. I am countering that it's "meaning" is part of it's representation. The information that makes up the story of the three bears may be in a book, but it doesn't mean anything to the book. Books aren't aware of anything much less how they are organized. It is only when the information is represented on an active medium, such as brain synapses that the information could be said to have "meaning". It's the brain process that brings meaning to the information contained within a book.