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The biological world is always communicating with itself, and thus its health, and the health of the individual organisms included in it, can be understood in terms of informtion science. Every cell in the body of every organism continuously processes information at high speed on a 24/7/365 basis -- only "24" should perhaps be rendered as ."001/. ( Read more... )

Gooing for Infinity, an anthology of stories by Poul Anderson, includes the story "Epilog," in which, through an accident of Einsteinian physics, Americans from the 1950s or 1960s find themselves flung billions of years into the future, returning to normal space to find Earth populated by the evolutionary products of self-replicating machines ( Read more... )

From a review on the Scientific American Book Club

Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics by Paul Davies, Niels Henrik Gregersen

Many scientists regard mass and energy as the primary constituents of nature. In recent years, however, the seminal role of information in physics has come under increasing scrutiny. ( Read more... )

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He's right -- I got my first IBM clone 386 computer in July of 1993 and got my first (and only) Internet account, on America Online, in November of that year, and desktop computers and the ability to go online and acquire and send out information at the speed of light, yet, to people all over the world, many of whom I've never ( Read more... )

A third and independent confirmation of the powerful predictive ability of "2=0" comes from the physical sciences, and in particular quantum mechanics, developed some three decades after the initial publication of Aleister Crowley's The Book of the Law in 1904. Crowley wasn't a physicist, and while H. P. Lovecraft was astonishingly learned in ( Read more... )