1/ Information is rare and hides in pockets as it battles the universe’s perennial march to disorder: the growth of entropy.
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2/ Earth is a very special place in the Universe as it is a singularity of physical order, or information as defined by Shannon in information theory.
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3/ First, information is physical or more precisely it is physically embodied. Information is not a thing; rather, it is the arrangement of physical things. It is not an amorphous soup of atoms but physical order.
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4/ Crash a 1m$ Ferrari against a wall, the dollar value evaporate while its weight doesn’t. The value was store in the way those atoms were arranged. This arrangement is information.
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It makes me think of Derek Parfit’s transporter thought experiment. Would we be the same person if a machine put us to sleepy, break us down into atoms, copy the information and relay it to somewhere else to recreate us atom by atom in exactly the same relative position?https://twitter.com/Kpaxs/status/947516461538578433 …
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