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Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe - An Exploration into Information Physics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe - An Exploration into Information Physics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
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Not so if the book has been translated into Arabic. Now the reader
can discern no meaning in the letters. The text conveys almost no
information to the reader, yet the linguistic informa tion
contained by the book is virtually the same as in the English
original. The reader, familiar with books will still recognise two
things, however: First, that the book is a book. Second, that the
squiggles on the page represent a pattern of abstractions which
probably makes sense to someone who understands the mean ing of
those squiggles. Therefore, the book as such, will still have some
meaning for the English reader, even if the content of the text has
none. Let us go to a more extreme case. Not a book, but a stone, or
a rock with engravings in an ancient language no longer under stood
by anyone alive. Does such a stone not contain human information
even if it is not decipherable? Suppose at some point in the
future, basic knowledge about linguistics and clever computer aids
allow us to decipher it? Or suppose someone discovers the
equivalent of a Rosetta stone which allows us to translate it into
a known language, and then into English? Can one really say that
the stone contained no information prior to translation? It is
possible to argue that the stone, prior to deciphering contained
only latent information."
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