„All things are numbers”
/Pythagoras/
Martin Buber wrote: “In the beginning is the relation”1. I have liked this thought, but today I would prefer to say that “in the beginning is the information”. Information is nothing more than the relationship between things. This, of course, sounds strange, since brings up the question of how is it possible that one thing presuppose two things. I leave this paradox now without a word, but I will return to it sometime.2
I consider the information as a special kind of energy. Energy is a working ability and Tom Stonier3 defined information as settling ability. My revised Stonier’s definition is that information is a copying ability. The copying ability also means reproduction ability, so the information is the prerequisite for the appearance of life and then of the intellect.
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1 Martin Buber, I and Thou
2 It is worth noting that this idea is related to the theory of string theory, in which the elementary entities are not point-like, but similar to string.
3 Tom Stonier, Information And The Internal Structure Of The Universe
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