[e2e] a means to an end

Joe Touch touch at ISI.EDU
Wed Nov 12 13:27:33 PST 2008


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David P. Reed wrote:
> It is fundamentally wrong to say that *information* exists at a place.  
> Storage exists at a place.
>
> A bit of information is fundamentally distinct in category and reality
> from a bit of storage.  Only computer scientists are so confused and
> deluded as to think that information and storage container are the same
> thing.

Information is the uncertainty of an outcome of an event. That event is
typically the interpretation of one or more symbols, those symbols are
tangeable, and have a location.

This computer scientist didn't say anything about storage.

Joe

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