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<p>Imported current content</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div><br /> Our poor brains need analogies to grasp some concepts.<br /> <br /> Information is a meta concept.<br /> <br /> Treating it as something tangible can help us to understand it.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ----<br /> In our brains we have hardwired components for interactions with people. We recognise eyes, faces, and even model other people in our minds. This has a deep evolutionary history. When we developed wider concepts we often used personification as a bridge. That river is described as &#039;old man river&#039;, the seasons of the year seen as a person growing older and being born.<br /> <br /> ----<br /> My poor brain finds little analogy from information to substance. When substance has form, it seems to have information, but substance by itself appears to be an [[InformationVacuum]]. [[InformationVacuum]] may be a bad analogy, since nature abhors substance vacuum but seems to favor [[InformationVacuum]].<br /> <br /> Bad Example. Nature doesn&#039;t care, one way or the other, about vacuums. We often think Nature does, but that&#039;s due to using just one data point in the full set. We are down in a gravity well, with lots of matter banging about against each other down here. That business (and friction) creates the &#039;High concentration to low concentration&#039; behavior we think is the guiding rule of this lone data point. The truth is, Nature has swept up our matter into a nice, discreet dust bunny that she may do something about, eventually. Before that, we were a nice diffuse cloud... now all that space we used to be in is a vacuum. See? With there being more Vacuum then Matter, and with Nature clumping Matter together, we would be better off saying, Nature prefers to make as big a vacuum as Nature can. --StarPilot, at it again. :-D<br /> <br /> ----<br /> Money is information about human value as energy is the information about the basic nature of our universe. Information as energy is substance by e=mc^2.<br /> <br /> Money is the [[HumanAnimal]]&#039;s most concentrated effort at [[ExtremeCollaboration]]. What an accomplishment, eh? (Actually, I say yes and no.) --StarPilot<br /> </div>

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