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To: Alamo-Girl; StJacques; betty boop; tortoise; Doctor Stochastic
The word complexity is even more explosive ...

If I had my way, I wouldn't use "information," "complexity" or any other word that has an alternate meaning in English. The possibility of an inadvertent slip into some less precise meaning, either on the part of the writer or the reader, is just too great. Perhaps we could, for our own discussions, consider adopting a symbol that has no other meaning.

443 posted on 01/04/2005 6:39:22 AM PST by PatrickHenry (The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry

Instead of the loaded word "information" just use "negative entropy" (with apologies to von Neumann and Shannon.)


444 posted on 01/04/2005 6:40:59 AM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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