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Message Subject Is information alive? Memetics, show that information replicates, evolves and mutates.
Poster Handle Plasmare
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Information is the cause, source and the root reason for all life. Life is so that information may spread.
 Quoting: Spam Killer


It really seems to me that information, whatever it really is, could be "alien". There is no real singular definition of what information is but I like to think of it as bits of reality. I find myself asking, why however. Why does it spread? Does it have a purpose? Information is in everything, not just life. Electrons, atoms, radiation, everything has information, our senses and brains just put a small slice of it together for us.
 Quoting: Plasmare 1443244


Information is God, eternal (in both 'directions') and everywhere in all things as you said, all is alive.
 Quoting: Spam Killer


Information cannot be destroyed, our scientific method has allowed us to discover that much. But saying it's god doesn't make things any clearer. On the contrary, it shows that we don't know or understand what information/god/whatever is. Despite what people believe, believing and knowing are totally different. One is based in reality, the other is not.

Memetics suggests that information spreads from person to person, like a virus or a disease. And this is true, why they call a video or meme "viral". A while ago I found an interesting article that discusses a group treating violence is a disease and having great success. This is their website; [link to cureviolence.org]

And it's not just violence, I suppose it can be any thought, look at comet ISON doom and trends and fads. I'm still trying to figure out why, what makes certain things go viral and not others?
 
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