your definition of information sounds an awful lot like an errant fart roaming the airspace. i think that terming it in terms of "zeroes and ones" is a misnomer, too. That is a mere encoding of information, not the information itself. if we focus on encoding at the surface level, where does that get us? Hell, we'd be breaking plagiarism laws.
The premise for the book was MUCH stronger, i think. It was 'WHAT IS HUMAN' as you say, but with an interesting twist - the replicants seemd more human than humanity itself at times. Supposedly, PKD got this idea when reading some testimony/journal of a Nazi concentration camp commandant who said that it was hard to sleep through all the screams, etc. in a very nonchalant, uncaring way.
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Just got a response from the folks at FreeBSD about this - it has been corrected and is up now.
Reading over the memo on the dangers of encryption in the realm of public safety reminds of me how the Church must have bantered back and forth over the dangers of public knowledge of the Copernican model of the universe. Why must governments continually impede progress? (rhetorical question) technological, scientific, or social - it makes no difference - The Man will attempt to rationally justify His attempts to eradicate change.
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your definition of information sounds an awful lot like an errant fart roaming the airspace. i think that terming it in terms of "zeroes and ones" is a misnomer, too. That is a mere encoding of information, not the information itself. if we focus on encoding at the surface level, where does that get us? Hell, we'd be breaking plagiarism laws.
The premise for the book was MUCH stronger, i think. It was 'WHAT IS HUMAN' as you say, but with an interesting twist - the replicants seemd more human than humanity itself at times. Supposedly, PKD got this idea when reading some testimony/journal of a Nazi concentration camp commandant who said that it was hard to sleep through all the screams, etc. in a very nonchalant, uncaring way.
Just got a response from the folks at FreeBSD about this - it has been corrected and is up now.
Reading over the memo on the dangers of encryption in the realm of public safety reminds of me how the Church must have bantered back and forth over the dangers of public knowledge of the Copernican model of the universe. Why must governments continually impede progress? (rhetorical question) technological, scientific, or social - it makes no difference - The Man will attempt to rationally justify His attempts to eradicate change.