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"John Jones" |
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10 Sep 2004 08:44:56 PM |
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The non-physical nature of information |
How much information can we take in before we can't understand it?
JJ
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| User: "The winged brain cell" |
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| Title: Re: The non-physical nature of information |
11 Sep 2004 12:43:37 PM |
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"John Jones" <jiversjivers@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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How much information can we take in before we can't understand it?
JJ
When the brain starts to boggle
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| User: "Milan" |
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| Title: Re: The non-physical nature of information |
10 Sep 2004 09:06:50 PM |
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"John Jones" <jiversjivers@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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How much information can we take in before we can't understand it?
JJ
Depends on the speed at which you take it.
regards
Milan
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| User: "John Jones" |
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| Title: The non-physical nature of information 2 |
10 Sep 2004 09:28:39 PM |
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Depends on the speed at which you take it.
At what speed can we take information in before we can't understand it?
JJ
Milan <mtklima@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"John Jones" <jiversjivers@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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How much information can we take in before we can't understand it?
JJ
Depends on the speed at which you take it.
regards
Milan
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| User: "Milan" |
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| Title: Re: The non-physical nature of information 2 |
11 Sep 2004 08:34:53 AM |
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"John Jones" <jiversjivers@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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Depends on the speed at which you take it.
At what speed can we take information in before we can't understand it?
JJ
Depends on the individual person.
regards
Milan
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| User: "John Jones" |
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| Title: The non-physical nature of information 2b |
12 Sep 2004 07:31:59 AM |
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Depends on the individual person.
My point was, that 'speed' is dependent on other factors. All this assumes
that it is correct to talk about taking information in without
understanding, which is not right.
JJ
Milan <mtklima@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"John Jones" <jiversjivers@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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Depends on the speed at which you take it.
At what speed can we take information in before we can't understand it?
JJ
Depends on the individual person.
regards
Milan
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| User: "Milan" |
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| Title: Re: The non-physical nature of information 2b |
13 Sep 2004 05:30:49 PM |
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"John Jones" <jiversjivers@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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Depends on the individual person.
My point was, that 'speed' is dependent on other factors. All this assumes
that it is correct to talk about taking information in without
understanding, which is not right.
JJ
That's not what you said.
regards
Milan
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| User: "John Jones" |
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| Title: The non-physical nature of information 2 |
12 Sep 2004 07:29:38 AM |
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Depends on the speed at which you take it.
Do I understand the sun when I look at it, because I know all the movements
of its molecules?
Or when I look at the sun am I confused?
JJ
Milan <mtklima@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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"John Jones" <jiversjivers@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
news:chtlao$pvt$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
How much information can we take in before we can't understand it?
JJ
Depends on the speed at which you take it.
regards
Milan
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| User: "Wordsmith" |
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| Title: Re: The non-physical nature of information 2 |
12 Sep 2004 08:50:01 PM |
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"John Jones" <jiversjivers@btopenworld.com> wrote in message news:<ci1ffh$qel$1@titan.btinternet.com>...
Depends on the speed at which you take it.
Do I understand the sun when I look at it, because I know all the movements
of its molecules?
You can't know that.
Or when I look at the sun am I confused?
Confusion isn't the half of it. If you look at it too long you'll be blind.
Wordsmith :)
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| User: "Stranger" |
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| Title: Re: The non-physical nature of information |
10 Sep 2004 09:56:25 PM |
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"John Jones" <jiversjivers@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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How much information can we take in before we can't understand it?
Sometimes, just one of your posts would fill to the point that
passes understanding.
JJ
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| User: "John Jones" |
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| Title: The answer |
12 Sep 2004 07:29:39 AM |
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Sometimes, just one of your posts would fill to the point that
passes understanding.
My post was meant to show that information is a spurious concept in that it
leads us to believe that there is information out there just waiting to be
collected. This is not the case. Therefore, the answer to 'how much
information can we take in before we can't understand it?' is that we can't
speak of 'understanding information'.
JJ
Stranger <info@mos.uk> wrote in message
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"John Jones" <jiversjivers@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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How much information can we take in before we can't understand it?
Sometimes, just one of your posts would fill to the point that
passes understanding.
JJ
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| User: "tg" |
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| Title: Re: The non-physical nature of information |
11 Sep 2004 12:42:30 PM |
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"John Jones" <jiversjivers@btopenworld.com> wrote in message news:<chtlao$pvt$1@hercules.btinternet.com>...
How much information can we take in before we can't understand it?
JJ
How could there be such a limit? I only misunderstand when I try to
construct new information from that which I have already taken in.
-tg
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| User: "John Jones" |
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| Title: Re: The non-physical nature of information |
12 Sep 2004 07:29:58 AM |
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Srite.
JJ
tg <tgdenning@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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"John Jones" <jiversjivers@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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How much information can we take in before we can't understand it?
JJ
How could there be such a limit? I only misunderstand when I try to
construct new information from that which I have already taken in.
-tg
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| User: "Gary Childress" |
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| Title: Re: Out of Plato's Cave? to the tune of "Tubular Bells" |
10 Sep 2004 09:21:35 PM |
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How much information can we take in before we can't understand it?
JJ
Me... Five or six sentences. The shorter, the better. Hence epigrams.
OR
The question may be, how little information is not enough. No?
Gary the Philologizer
Single, white, male, receptionist, 37 years old, former university philosophy
major, no degree, hedonist, addicted to computer games, mentally ill but stable
on meds, living with parents in the state of Florida USA.
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| User: "John Jones" |
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| Title: Out of Plato's Cave? to the tune of "Tubular Bells" |
12 Sep 2004 07:35:30 AM |
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The question may be, how little information is not enough. No?
That's right. The missing half of a whole story is not the same as more of a
whole story.
jJ
Gary Childress <philologizer@aol.comNOSPAM> wrote in message
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How much information can we take in before we can't understand it?
JJ
Me... Five or six sentences. The shorter, the better. Hence epigrams.
OR
The question may be, how little information is not enough. No?
Gary the Philologizer
Single, white, male, receptionist, 37 years old, former university
philosophy
major, no degree, hedonist, addicted to computer games, mentally ill but
stable
on meds, living with parents in the state of Florida USA.
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