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What is information?

>> No.6137422

I wish we had a philosophy board for all these retards to circlejerk about their stupid questions

>> No.6137424

>>6137422
> dur hur i only like math send sci
>infermation has no theory, stupid philosofag

>> No.6137430
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>>6137418
>>6137424
>shitposting

>> No.6137436

>>6137418
Sensorial perception which the brain regards as having some value?

>> No.6137435

>>6137422
So, if the question is so stupid then please just give me the answer.

Let's take for example biological information. RNA is reading the DNA to decipher the information "written" in it. But how does it "know" what is right and what is wrong? How does it "know" what each combination of bases means?

If I teach a child about numbers, and then write the numbers and the child then reads them, it knows what numbers I wrote because of what I tought him. He can then decipher the information I "encoded" in the numbers I wrote.
But only because I told him. The numbers don't actually hold any value, they are just random lines of ink on a piece of paper. So how does it know the information.

>>6137424
Shitposting makes you look silly aswell, you know?

>>6137430
OP here, I was not the one green texting.

>> No.6137439

>>6137436
I would say that information is still information even in the absence of a brain perceiving it. Five apples are still five apples.

I would define it as anything that can be converted to ones and zeros.

>> No.6137443

>>6137436
But wouldn't that imply that the brain knows some information in the first place?

I realize I must come off as some creationist in the long run, but I really am not. It is just a question that is bugging me. How does anything "know"?