What is Information? | Episode 1403 | Closer To Truth

What is information? Information is all the rage in science, changing how we think about fundamental questions. Information has many descriptions, some of them surprising. Why is Information so important to scientists and philosophers? Featuring interviews with Max Tegmark, Paul Davies, Seth Lloyd, Giulio Tononi, and Scott Aaronson.
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  • @CloserToTruthTV
    @CloserToTruthTV4 жыл бұрын

    If you enjoyed this video, please consider showing your support for Closer To Truth by becoming a subscriber. And thank you for your curiosity!

  • @francoismorin8721

    @francoismorin8721

    3 жыл бұрын

    Information theory and consciousness maybe on the right track, I suggest you take a look at this article on Big Think :Scientists achieve teleportation breakthrough. t.ly/TR9n Also I remember the controversy of the thesis of the brothers Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff wich says exactly that (I quote in French) : l'« instanton », désignant l'univers de l'ère de Planck concentré dans un objet mathématique où matière, énergie et temps seraient remplacés par de l'information. Have a good day!

  • @davidkincade7161

    @davidkincade7161

    3 жыл бұрын

    thanks, this is great! sounds like those that discuss "consciousness" as well- which I'm sure you know and probably deal with later- I'm only part way through. You guys should read this: www.intendedevolution.com And thanks for the other poster for his link!

  • @moses777exodus

    @moses777exodus

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing, Lord-Jesus-Christ com

  • @1stPrinciples455

    @1stPrinciples455

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why must scientists always think particle and information MUST BE Governed by a LAW? This thinking alone Constrained the possibilities. The Scientific Method is a Constrain to knowing the absolute truth

  • @1stPrinciples455

    @1stPrinciples455

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@francoismorin8721 it gives scientists a means to continue being employed by universities. The truth may never ever be known

  • @EriiikaGuerra
    @EriiikaGuerra2 жыл бұрын

    My dream is to be successful enough in my physics career so I can be interviewed by this dude.

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    @maxpower252

    Жыл бұрын

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  • @trolley2327

    @trolley2327

    4 ай бұрын

    Me too :)) In cognitive science

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    @alicereynoso

    Ай бұрын

    Hurry up! 😊

  • @reimannx33

    @reimannx33

    Ай бұрын

    Wrong motivation to do physics at the highest levels. This is not about being a 'celebrity.'

  • @EriiikaGuerra

    @EriiikaGuerra

    Ай бұрын

    @@reimannx33 who cares.

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    @Domispitaletti4 жыл бұрын

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    @AazamPossum

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ditto. Hate anything religious as it's just boring. Love the show though.

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    @STREAMSKIMedia

    4 жыл бұрын

    Me three. This channel is positively outstanding. I watch most episodes 2-3 times because it takes me a while to understand each subject. Often times I will go watch the interview subject’s other lectures or get their books from the library. Love love love this channel.

  • @philo3838

    @philo3838

    4 жыл бұрын

    How boring and dull minded those uninterested in religion are

  • @Domispitaletti

    @Domispitaletti

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@philo3838 Its a known fact that i'm boring.

  • @AazamPossum

    @AazamPossum

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@philo3838 Truth is boring and unfortunately some long for truth than joy

  • @ameremortal
    @ameremortal4 жыл бұрын

    It blows my mind that the questions asked in this series seem so simple, yet few have concrete answers. Reality is so strange.

  • @ameremortal

    @ameremortal

    4 жыл бұрын

    YouReadMyName A true scientist doesn’t believe either way. God or no God, we will accept things as they are. I hope there is a God, but wanting something to be true does not make it so. Science and idealism don’t contradict each other, neither do Science and God.

  • @sillymesilly

    @sillymesilly

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@YouReadMyName mind is part of material world. It does not belong in spiritual realm.

  • @sparkyy0007

    @sparkyy0007

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sillymesilly " mind is part of material world. It does not belong in spiritual realm." Where is your evidence of such an extravagant claim, other than a presupposition of materialism. We know thought and ideas are immaterial entities as are mathematical concepts that must be manifest to a material substrate to be realized or communicated. We know the material brain is part of the material world, but nobody understands what the mind, let alone consciousness is or where it even resides. We could be nothing more than chemical robots controlled by a resident immaterial consciousness. Destroy the body, the soul moves on is entirely possible, and would completely fit with observed phenomena.

  • @johnyoutube6746

    @johnyoutube6746

    3 жыл бұрын

    Reality is the law of universe

  • @sparkyy0007

    @sparkyy0007

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@johnyoutube6746 ...for a materialist, I agree.

  • @lindal.7242
    @lindal.724211 ай бұрын

    Out of all the intellectuals Robert has interviewed, Mr. Paul Davies is by far the wisest.

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    @sarthakmittal6413 жыл бұрын

    In a world where media and politicians have an incentive to make it chaotic . This channel offers a chance to breath and reminds us of the bigger picture and care about things that gives deep meaning to our lives ,it's humbling to understand our place in the universe and understand the reality we exist in .. great work by the whole team ❤️

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    @NicolasMarinos4 жыл бұрын

    You keep spewing out so good content lately! Wow! Very very impressed by this channel!

  • @sha9543

    @sha9543

    4 жыл бұрын

    I learned nothing.

  • @joeprogrock

    @joeprogrock

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indeed!!!!

  • @b.g.5869

    @b.g.5869

    2 жыл бұрын

    This was filmed for an episode of a US public television show way back in January of 2014.

  • @innertubez

    @innertubez

    Жыл бұрын

    "Spewing" has a pejorative connation. How about doling out?

  • @b.g.5869

    @b.g.5869

    Жыл бұрын

    @@innertubez That would make no sense. What he should have said was _putting_ out, but the episode was many years old at the time anyway. I don't know why so many people don't realize these are old episodes of a television show and _not_ videos made for KZread.

  • @PavelSTL
    @PavelSTL4 жыл бұрын

    Are these conferences open to the public? Would love to spend a week in the Caribbean listening to these guys and pondering the meaning of life on the beach : )

  • @ASLUHLUHCE
    @ASLUHLUHCE4 жыл бұрын

    Only half a year ago or so, I started thinking about consciousness (learnt of Giulio Tononi and integrated information theory). Then, more recently, I learnt of information and started thinking about it's relation to physical reality and consciousness (and learnt of Seth Lloyd). Whilst under the impression that I was early to the information party, Robert then uploads this. This channel is a goldmine

  • @spiralsun1

    @spiralsun1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol, I love this ❤️ There are things about integrated information theory that if you logically follow where they lead will very much “bake your noodle” as they say in the “Matrix” movie 🍿 🥰👍🏻 I originally came up with the same theory as an undergraduate in the 80’s when I was studying random old psychological theories for my senior honors thesis and sea urchins. Not even joking... I stepped on one in Hawaii. My advice? Don’t do that. 😐 Anyway I didn’t stop to work on the math... Tononi is doing an awesome job of it. Much love and much needed. I know a lot of famous people in the intellectual history, but I am pretty behind-the-scenes or “underground” like Laslow in “real genius” movie 😂🍿👍🏻 so you probably won’t recognize my name or anything but yeah. I figured I wanted to talk with you since you resonated with Tononis stuff. It’s much more important than people currently know. Trust me. 😉

  • @jalepezo
    @jalepezo Жыл бұрын

    I am so happy to see that Close to True has 450 k subscribers, worldwide, like PEOPLE ARE ASKING QUESTIONS and not just watching kardashians and TLC all day long

  • @peterwolftips
    @peterwolftips2 ай бұрын

    I personally believe that information is the most valuable thing in the entire universe.

  • @balasubr2252
    @balasubr22524 жыл бұрын

    “Information is closer to truth” - what an interesting conclusion!!

  • @jeff-onedayatatime.2870
    @jeff-onedayatatime.28704 жыл бұрын

    If you are fascinated by this, James Gleick's "The Information" is a great primer to understand 'information". It starts with Claude Shannon and moves forward from there.

  • @spiralsun1

    @spiralsun1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, that was a good one! 🥰

  • @NickMirro

    @NickMirro

    9 ай бұрын

    Great recommendation! It doesn't start with Claude Shannon, it starts with one of the most underappreciated technological advances in history... African drummers. Centuries before we invented Morse code, they were passing complex information around the continent in hours.

  • @jeff-onedayatatime.2870

    @jeff-onedayatatime.2870

    9 ай бұрын

    @@NickMirro This maybe explains why Feynman was a drummer. Ringo Starr, Dave Grohl, Chad Smith, and Richard Feynman. :)

  • @VikasKumar-zn4lr
    @VikasKumar-zn4lr2 жыл бұрын

    This is really best youTube channel i have ever seen, immensely knowledge sharing channel. Thanks for uploading.

  • @b.g.5869

    @b.g.5869

    2 жыл бұрын

    It wasn't made for KZread. It's an old episode from a TV show.

  • @edhiett
    @edhiett4 жыл бұрын

    Incredible video, a 26min masterpiece, one of my recent faves! Thank you for all your work, to capture, filter, explain, express, bring to light, the essence of all that is! ⚛

  • @guillermobrand8458

    @guillermobrand8458

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, an incredible video. Privileged minds that for 26 minutes talk about a topic without contributing anything.

  • @wmpx34

    @wmpx34

    10 ай бұрын

    @@guillermobrand8458 can’t wait to hear your deep insights

  • @guillermobrand8458

    @guillermobrand8458

    10 ай бұрын

    @@wmpx34 Since you ask me, Is there an "Evolutionary Course"? The evidence suggests that this is the case, that a major evolutionary milestone is looming, and that Artificial Intelligence will “give life” to an entity that will be the next evolutionary leader. docs.google.com/document/d/16BrZUvIYE_xHKF2EIjohL3zu_OtSK03A/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102504490215995772235&rtpof=true&sd=true

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    @Clipfuse12 жыл бұрын

    By far the most intelligent series anywhere on the internet today.

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    @zerodivider43334 жыл бұрын

    This is a great channel. Thank you.

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    @melmill11644 жыл бұрын

    I love your channel. I cannot get enough of it. You are very open to new suggestions and ideas but still remain very objective.

  • @b.g.5869

    @b.g.5869

    2 жыл бұрын

    These aren't made for this KZread channel, they were made for a long running TV show. I don't think the TV show is actually being made anymore though I never heard it was cancelled. In the past 2 years or so Kuhn has to occasionally released videos for KZread, but these aren't really Closer To Truth episodes. These are those one on one Zoom discussions. Google a recent photo of Kuhn and you'll be able to infer how old a lot of these are by how much younger Kuhn and his guests look.

  • @jeff-onedayatatime.2870
    @jeff-onedayatatime.28704 жыл бұрын

    Seth Lloyd, Paul Davies, Max Tegmark...this is a star studded lineup. Those three are among the smartest people in the world.

  • @spiralsun1

    @spiralsun1

    3 жыл бұрын

    I know, right? So freakin cool!!! ❤️👍🏻

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    @sheenaalexis87103 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely LOVE your content! This is fantastic entertainment while learning, my fav. I have such a crush on Max Tegmark...simply love his brain.

  • @colineckstrand271
    @colineckstrand2714 жыл бұрын

    Excellent presentation, thank you!!

  • @theyetti90
    @theyetti904 ай бұрын

    In 2009 when I was writing a report on adult stem cells and realized they'd been found in every organ, but the studies, except for one, were all saying only one organ had them, I realized scientists were not talking to each other.

  • @elgatoconbolas
    @elgatoconbolas4 жыл бұрын

    The unreasonable effectiveness of information.

  • @versatilejams
    @versatilejams9 ай бұрын

    This guy is really good at explaining complex ideas simply.

  • @westo6667
    @westo66673 ай бұрын

    so much infortmation information overload!

  • @woofie8647
    @woofie86474 жыл бұрын

    It still leaves us with the question, "Where does information come from?", which is the same as asking how and why the universe.

  • @ejpmooB

    @ejpmooB

    4 жыл бұрын

    it's a special form of nothing. Like plus and minus equal nothing. And the moment somebody or something understands it completely, it disintegrates : )

  • @lucemiserlohn

    @lucemiserlohn

    4 жыл бұрын

    Information is a necessity to have dis-order; dis-order is entropy (more entropy means more information is required to describe and record the state of a system) and entropy is the origin of the arrow of time. In this sense, information comes into being because it must; and this implies (though this is hard to derive and would be even harder to prove) that everything that is is a pure mathematical construct, and exists because it is possible for it to exist - entropy, or the amount of information, in this sense is what enables all mathematical structures to exist eventually. It is a sine qua non necessity for anything to exist at all.

  • @hamidswift

    @hamidswift

    2 жыл бұрын

    Special form of nothing. Haha

  • @woofie8647

    @woofie8647

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@lucemiserlohn Entropy is just a secondary result of matter/energy being acted upon by the laws of physics, and not a "thing in itself". Time is a mental construct with no innate reality. Far out? Yes! But more scientists are beginning to question the reality of time. Information popping up out of nowhere is good for explaining a universe popping out of nowhere, but the question still remains.

  • @lucemiserlohn

    @lucemiserlohn

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@woofie8647 Arrow of time, not time itself; entropy is the reason time is not reversible, it does not relate to an abstract origin of time as a phenomenon, fundamental or emerging. You can argue about the origin of time all you want, that does not change that the second law of thermodynamics describes the mechanism by which events in spacetime are ordered and gives rise to the concepts of past, present and future - with the constant maximum speed of information transmission across spacetime being c, without which also there would not be an order of events (with c unlimited, there would be no differentiation between cause and effect, as everything would be simultaneous). Entropy is a statistical physical observation and is regarded a fundamental law of physics; there is nothing to suggest that entropy would be an emergent phenomenon. Now, while metaphysical philosophical theories are entertaining, we must always remind ourselves that our observations are the facts and that any theory must be falsifiable in observation and/or experiment; your claim that time is not real or not fundamental is, with the current body of knowledge and on the basis of tested theories, is not falsifiable, not testable and makes no inherent predictions. As such, it cannot be taken seriously as a scientific possibility, or what you aptly describe as "far out". As for "information popping in and out of nowhere", that is a consequence of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which has been tested and so far no experiment suggests it to be wrong; uncertainty makes the prediction of "stuff" appearing and disappearing everywhere and all the time, and real phenomena like the Casimir effect support this prediction.

  • @saturdaysequalsyouth
    @saturdaysequalsyouth2 жыл бұрын

    "Every time we see information it's instantiated in matter." That can't be right.

  • @afifakimih8823
    @afifakimih88234 жыл бұрын

    "this channal is a storehouse of knowledge"

  • @somexinternational3786
    @somexinternational37862 жыл бұрын

    thank you very much closer to truth

  • @petermartin5030
    @petermartin5030 Жыл бұрын

    Information: a difference that makes a difference.

  • @jmzorko
    @jmzorko3 жыл бұрын

    I very much enjoy content like this, which makes CTT easily among my favorite avenues for learning about this _very_ interesting, albeit often confounding, world. This episode is among the very best of what are, far more often than not, very good discussions. Plus, Wittgenstein +1 :-)

  • @platonicforms562
    @platonicforms5624 жыл бұрын

    Really enjoyed the mind walk. Thanks.

  • @xxxs8309
    @xxxs83092 жыл бұрын

    The ultimate truth is that everything is information

  • @j3cruz1
    @j3cruz13 жыл бұрын

    Wow! This episode was more difficult for me to wrap my mind around than others in this series, especially with what Aronson had to say at the end. I'm also intrigued by the intrinsic information piece, but I'm not quite sure how to make sense of it. Can some one offer some metaphors that may be more accessible to explain intrinsic information or how information is dealt with from a quantum perspective?

  • @aclearlight
    @aclearlight4 жыл бұрын

    Lovely show, once again. This channel is a true gem. I would like to hear more about the boundary condition-like role played by "context" as the dynamics of information and information exchange play out. I sense that the occasional over-sell of "it from bit" which i see thrown around has to do with the slippery role of context (possibly akin to the slippery role of "environment-vs-system" type concerns in Schroedinger Cat-based discussions).

  • @b.g.5869

    @b.g.5869

    2 жыл бұрын

    This isn't new. It's an old episode of his TV show, not a KZread video.

  • @Panacea9
    @Panacea98 ай бұрын

    Information can trick, especially when incomplete or out of order.

  • @thanzi4148
    @thanzi4148 Жыл бұрын

    Finally a step closer I’ve always been curious about how something immaterial can only be identified in a material field unless it itself is the fundamental material

  • @traceywolfe9059
    @traceywolfe90593 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the channel

  • @singaporethomasgiam5608
    @singaporethomasgiam56083 жыл бұрын

    the content that the professional talking about is hard to understand because it cannot be apply in our daily life, but i enjoy this talk show!

  • @gedde5703
    @gedde57034 жыл бұрын

    Robert looks like the result of Jeff Goldblum and Albert Einstein having a child

  • @andrewsmith3257

    @andrewsmith3257

    10 ай бұрын

    Sounds like it

  • @anthonyballoni4824
    @anthonyballoni48243 жыл бұрын

    Great editing of the images, text and music at the end! 👌

  • @guillermobrand8458
    @guillermobrand84583 жыл бұрын

    A walk of brilliant minds through the valley of ignorance. Beautiful vacation in any case.

  • @haniefsofi
    @haniefsofi3 жыл бұрын

    Brilliantly created videos. Thanks

  • @The1MkII
    @The1MkII4 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic video. Earned a new subscription!

  • @neilcreamer8207
    @neilcreamer82074 жыл бұрын

    Some physics seems to work by attempting to solve problems by inventing entities. So where time and space were ideas that became reified as things which have existence now information, which was once a term used to describe the properties of bodies (or matter) is now treated as an entity in itself. Once again, our newest technology has fed into a worldview and we all of a sudden believe that everything has to do with information processing. Paul Davies said that information has always been thought of as instantiated with matter but he implied that this has somehow changed. I'd be interested to hear a valid example of the existence of information pertinent to physics in the absence of some matter to which it pertains.

  • @willmosse3684

    @willmosse3684

    4 жыл бұрын

    Good point

  • @nicolasargon1436

    @nicolasargon1436

    3 жыл бұрын

    The best analogy I have is observing an object in a vacuum. Understand ‘vacuum’ here as being an environment free of relational potential. That is, a vacuum is somewhere where identity is isolated, a thing is itself only as it is not in relation to other things. That doesn’t mean it’s the only thing that exists period, but that it is beyond the range of interaction to other things that exist, making it artificially ‘a thing in itself’. Now imagine we are an invisible observer. And let’s say we perceive this object in a vacuum to be moving. We would see the object both as a point in space and as a vector through space. The ‘object’ being the point in space, and ‘movement’ the vector through space. That would define the identity of the object as both a discrete thing (the object) and a contiguous thing (the movement). OR, that would define the identity of the object as a mass (the object) and a force (the movement). I say “define the identity” as the object must necessarily be described by both. To omit one would be to fail to refer to the object in question. Now imagine BEING the object we were just observing. The ‘observer’ we had created in the paragraph above is invisible, and we are in a vacuum. Remember that means that we are in relation to nothing at all except our self. What is it like being this object? Well, we are a huge contradiction! Remember to be what I am, I must both be location and movement (point/vector; mass/force; discrete/contiguous). But experientially, since I am in relation to nothing, I am all points simultaneously. I am actually alien to myself as I have no way to discern my own movement. I could only recognize that I’m moving when in relation to another object. But since I’m in a vacuum, I have no way to know that the location I occupy now is any different from the location I occupied a moment ago. If this is true, then to have identity of 1 (to have existence AKA matter) is dependent upon relations with other identities. When our object in a vacuum is in contradiction and is a reference to all points simultaneous, it is just infinite potential. It is everything. The concept of '1', of a thing, of an atom doesn't make sense for the object in a vacuum. In this weird way, space and matter would be the implication of to the existence of infinite potentials/information, and relations between them. The relation between them is what we refer to as 'matter' but it's more of an instantiation of existence than THE existence. Like if matter and space are just measurements of the interaction between continuous information. Do you think this could be the case? Or am I thinking about it incorrectly?

  • @julianfogel5635

    @julianfogel5635

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nicolasargon1436 "I am in relation to nothing" What about your relation to the original observer, the one that was observing you? In addition, if you allow for quantum theory and its virtual particles, there is no such perfect vacuum as was described above, since everywhere in space virtual particles are constantly popping into and out of existence, in which case you are always going to be in relation to these virtual particles.

  • @nicolasargon1436

    @nicolasargon1436

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@julianfogel5635 Its a thought experiment, trying to pin down where identity comes from. Obviously, as far we know at this time, its impossible to study a thing in relation to nothing at all. Still, the point is: what if we are to imagine this, and try to tease out what may be the case.

  • @julianfogel5635

    @julianfogel5635

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nicolasargon1436 I agree. A point-mass (a mass at a point in space), unchanging, in an infinite perfect vacuum cannot have any notion of space or time since space is always in relation to some other point whose distance away can be (indirectly or directly) measured, and time is always measured via change, so without change in the point-mass itself there is no time. With mass though, we can define the mass of the point particle as having one unit, so there is that one bit of information. This single bit of information allows us to distinguish between an empty universe vs. one containing the point mass. In this sense, you don't need to be in relation to anything else in order to exist as a mass. This begs the question though of how to measure this mass since it doesn't push against anything or influence anything, and so it's reasonable to say that since we can't tell the difference between an empty universe and one with a single unchanging point mass, because there's no way to measure the mass, that there cannot be a difference. Thus in this case I would agree with you that a universe with a single unchanging point-mass in an otherwise empty universe is in practice indistinguishable from a completely empty universe. Unless... the point-mass can somehow detect its own existence. Getting into the realm of speculation now, if the point-mass had some kind of minimal amount of conciousness, just enough say to be consciously aware that it exists, then there would be a detectable difference. In the empty universe, there is no awareness whatsoever, but in the one with a "conscious" point-mass there is awareness of the existence of the point-mass. In other words, in the empty universe there are no observers, but in the universe with a point-mass, there is an observer (the point-mass itself) that can observe its own existence. Although it cannot observe any distance or time or mass, nonetheless just like Descartes put it it experiences some kind of conciousness which is also a kind of (subjective) observation.

  • @karenkurdijinian2069
    @karenkurdijinian20693 жыл бұрын

    Information is Energy .Energy is information which made all this we feel to know to recognize through our senses 🙏🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

  • @patmoran5339

    @patmoran5339

    3 жыл бұрын

    circular at best

  • @amitsunoko7270
    @amitsunoko72703 жыл бұрын

    Very good documentary 👍. Thank you

  • @johnbuckner2828
    @johnbuckner28284 жыл бұрын

    If Rockefeller were a skeptic: "How much quantum information is enough?" "Just a little BIT more" 😏 Great episode by the way

  • @iamwhoyousayiam6773

    @iamwhoyousayiam6773

    4 жыл бұрын

    Skeptic? A _Rockefeller?_ That doesn't make sense. They decide what MSM puts out lol

  • @johnbuckner2828

    @johnbuckner2828

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@iamwhoyousayiam6773 no, LOL I was just trying to be clever with a play on words. Rockefeller is famous for responding to the question "how much money is enough?" with "just a little bit more" -get it? *elbow nudge* 😉

  • @bjm6275
    @bjm62752 жыл бұрын

    Information is bits of reality in the form of energy, particles and matter.

  • @elgatoconbolas
    @elgatoconbolas4 жыл бұрын

    Thermodynamics is related to the traditional theory of information, both are based on statistics. Algorithm information theory is not statistically based, it is based on reducing a string as much as possible by finding the minimal length rule that expresses that string.

  • @matozec9177
    @matozec91774 жыл бұрын

    Paul Davis once stated: "How did stupid atoms write their own software?" A very good question. The fact is "stupid atoms" (i.e. undirected, ungoverned) energy or force cannot write anything (anything sensible, that is). To write something you need a Mind.

  • @bibiayube677

    @bibiayube677

    4 жыл бұрын

    And you know that mind, WOW you rigligous folks always put God in, whenever there's a gap in our knowledge, remember Galileo, Spinoza,and Giordano Bruno,they were all right, rigligion claims to have information it can't possibly have, that's arogance,not humility

  • @vedantsarnayak5017

    @vedantsarnayak5017

    Жыл бұрын

    So who wrote the software of that 'mind'

  • @jeffxanders3990
    @jeffxanders39904 жыл бұрын

    When you look for explanation instead of description, you might surprise yourself. Science is the useful religion of description.

  • @jeffxanders3990

    @jeffxanders3990

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Psychiatrysts It's all food for thought though.

  • @jeffxanders3990

    @jeffxanders3990

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheWorldTeacher I agree. Man needs both. That would be the philosophical point of view which relies on reasonable assumption which is the best we can do. Absolute makes war in the name of its ideal or God. Can we not realize that the source of our being is in us all to begin with? Do we not know by now that balance is key to all things?

  • @jeffxanders3990

    @jeffxanders3990

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheWorldTeacher Ah! Excellent! Intelligent food for thought. Thank you. And I wish you well, as well as I look forward to further understanding towards further entertainment 😊

  • @jeffxanders3990

    @jeffxanders3990

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheWorldTeacher Thank you, RE. I agree that all is (was) put forth by design, but through accident by means of chaos itself, thus keeping the ultimate challenge available in the game. To answer all in attitude with an eye to balance, thus becoming an elite of the game - able to guide from one's own place of choice. After all, Source, I think, knows how to live better than most, wouldn't you say?

  • @jeffxanders3990

    @jeffxanders3990

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@TheWorldTeacher In my world, there is always more to be found. Maybe you'll be one of my teachers there. My definition of friend is both teacher and student 😊 Namaste

  • @karenkurdijinian2069
    @karenkurdijinian20693 жыл бұрын

    Sun is one of the best carrier of information 🙏🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

  • @sillymesilly

    @sillymesilly

    3 жыл бұрын

    In Bhagavad Gita, Sun thought yoga to mankind first before it was forgotten and rediscovered again.

  • @dgodiex
    @dgodiex4 жыл бұрын

    Dear Robert, as long as you continue to try to understand consciousness, or "truth", by the use of words, you'll be forever lost in the quest. Reality is not made of words, numbers or any other 'concept'. Reality just IS. Be silent and you'll realize it. Anyway, I love your series. You seem to be genuinely on the right path, just remember that this is all just words. And words - like mathematics - are useful tools of human creation. But, how would a brain explain its own existence by means of words itself created? :) I wish you the best

  • @dgodiex

    @dgodiex

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@merlin6234 Yes! Thanks man. All the best in your journey.

  • @MarcusHalberstramVP

    @MarcusHalberstramVP

    9 ай бұрын

    You claim that reality is just is, by what does it truly mean to be? What does it mean to ontologically exist? If you doubt the ability of words to decipher meaning and produce logical inferences, your own claims and conclusions become of no value. In other words, if words are limited and ultimately unable to provide explanations, what makes you think that they are to be relied upon when it comes to reaching this very conclusion?

  • @bensarkisov3314
    @bensarkisov3314 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @andreaguidotti3081
    @andreaguidotti30814 жыл бұрын

    Luciano Floridi could be a good person to talk about of this topic. I will appreciate a future (very future considering Covid-19 present situation) video with him talking about information and the digital revolution.

  • @dayanandabs1590
    @dayanandabs15902 жыл бұрын

    Every information entangled in a single point.

  • @rudy8278
    @rudy82783 жыл бұрын

    Information is the description of the action of being. The interaction is fundamental, the information is the observation.

  • @TetsuoTheAwakenedOne
    @TetsuoTheAwakenedOne3 жыл бұрын

    Today, I am closer to truth.

  • @shashikamanoj1160
    @shashikamanoj11604 жыл бұрын

    Paul Davies, genius . I suppose the only one who approached the topic rationally

  • @Ndo01
    @Ndo014 жыл бұрын

    Nothing can exist without carrying information, and information can't exist without something to carry it. There isn't necessarily a 'single' fundamental thing.

  • @patmoran5339

    @patmoran5339

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Psychiatrysts delusion?

  • @mirkono
    @mirkono Жыл бұрын

    Information is emerging from the entropy

  • @MrRamon2004
    @MrRamon20043 жыл бұрын

    Information is what science discover time to time in the universe, is that energy thinking in side your body and everywhere in the universe. In this life and the next one stay in the light.

  • @paulcunnane4
    @paulcunnane44 жыл бұрын

    What's "infamation"?

  • @Tom_Quixote

    @Tom_Quixote

    3 жыл бұрын

    Something to do with lots of "Adams" I guess.

  • @johntavers6878

    @johntavers6878

    3 жыл бұрын

    i was looking for this comment

  • @katherinestone333
    @katherinestone3334 жыл бұрын

    If it is true that information is the "primary stuff" that literally shapes our reality, which is more than likely, then some of today's assumptions are in urgent need of revision.

  • @animalbird9436
    @animalbird94364 жыл бұрын

    Yeh like this guy.. Really informative..

  • @garybalatennis
    @garybalatennis4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for another fascinating video with interviews of thoughtful scientists probing the nature and limits of information. I am less persuaded that information, as a concept and entity, is a fundamental aspect of reality. This is in contrast to some of the commentators who even seem to suggest that information may operate as a creative force to bring things into existence. I would press pause on that notion. I see information rather as an advanced kind of “programming code” for other things such as energy and matter. It is nevertheless, at the very least, a vital aspect of our description of reality, I think. One aspect of information not touched on in the video is related to that famous “bet” between S. Hawking and Kip Thorne on one side and L. Suskind/J. Preskill on the other side over black holes - the Black Hole Information Paradox. Recall that Hawking first claimed information is forever lost when objects fall into a black hole and it’s singularity ending. Susskind and Preskill objected based on conservation of energy and information principles. Information is never lost, argued Susskind. Hawking lost the bet when he conceded that proofs showed that the information corresponding to any object falling into a black hole never leaves the universe. It remains captured forever in an apparent arc of radiation at the black hole’s event horizon - and it was later captioned “Hawking Radiation”. Lesson: The eternal and on-going nature of information in our space-time universe. Meanwhile, some scientists used this lesson to construct the model of the Holographic Universe. But that is another story. Meantime, many thanks again for your video.

  • @apostolosprl4052
    @apostolosprl40523 жыл бұрын

    The greatest channel on youtube

  • @karenkurdijinian2069
    @karenkurdijinian20693 жыл бұрын

    The secret is in language with every way to decode any word sound and lows and regulations to use them 🙏🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

  • @terencedavid3146
    @terencedavid31462 жыл бұрын

    Not only is information everywhere but "everything" IS information. ✅ Infact, the word 'inform' etymologically is from the Latin 'formare' meaning to change, to form, to train, to instruct, to educate the "mind" into hopefully something new n constructive. The clue is in the "in" in inform, to form 'within' one's mind, an internal process. Most peoples information of things is minimal, basic n generalised and limited to name, form & function. How much information is imbued, anslysed n understood is wholly dependent on the cognitive intelligence of the person or in the case of a computer its general spec etc etc.

  • @dennistucker1153
    @dennistucker11532 жыл бұрын

    What is Information? I would define information as ... convey-able knowledge.

  • @mehdibaghbadran3182
    @mehdibaghbadran31822 жыл бұрын

    Our information will become our experiences, and our experiences, causes our consciousness, and when you get conscious, then creation starts in the most areas in science, and we find meaning for most objects in our nature’s, and this was the ways, we came forward as a human being !

  • @riderzonthastorm
    @riderzonthastorm2 жыл бұрын

    What Mr. Kuhn is struggling with here, is the dichotomy between matter BEING or REPRESENTING information. He asks this question in various forms and doesn't really get a consistent answer. To overcome this dichotomy lies at the heart of our quest to understand ultimate reality.

  • @AdeebaZamaan
    @AdeebaZamaan4 жыл бұрын

    I've been asking this question for about six months. (I was temporarily done with thinking of everything in terms of narrative.) The problem is that I can't think of any way information isn't communication, and I can't think of any way communication doesn't require a communicator and a communicatee, so to speak, and that seems to make some kind of consciousness the ground of everything. Framing it in terms of binaries is really thought-provoking, because it suggests that every On is composed of innumerable On's and Off's, and vice versa, just as routines are built of subroutines and as both Socrates and Tibetan Buddhism use a technique of questions with yes and no answers to achieve enlightenment.

  • @gregariousguru
    @gregariousguru2 жыл бұрын

    The interesting thing about information is that it doesn't seem to be an inherent property of space and matter.

  • @Paradigm2012Shift
    @Paradigm2012Shift4 жыл бұрын

    Information is clearly fundamental to the nature of reality. But, knowing what is information raises the more fundamental question of, "where did the information in the universe come from?" As far as is presently known, (functional) information is the product of only Mind/Consciousness. So, from whose Mind/Consciousness does all of the information in the universe come from?

  • @MrAlipatik

    @MrAlipatik

    4 жыл бұрын

    from u..

  • @almalayuwiyyah2512

    @almalayuwiyyah2512

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MrAlipatik god

  • @youneselhachi9221

    @youneselhachi9221

    3 жыл бұрын

    Information is eternal and self-existing, yet it is dynamic

  • @spellrush2097

    @spellrush2097

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me.. (Sorry I know I have a messed up imagination)

  • @cristianm7097

    @cristianm7097

    2 жыл бұрын

    Genetic Algorithms

  • @fulldraw1580
    @fulldraw15803 жыл бұрын

    7:00 This is one of the deepes thoughts i ever heard of.

  • @javaxp1
    @javaxp13 жыл бұрын

    Every atom of this universe has the information about how it is suppose to behave.. this information makes it what it is.. every living as well as non living thing exist because of information in them.. there has to be a source definitely

  • @Michiel_de_Jong
    @Michiel_de_Jong4 жыл бұрын

    It all started with the word. Words were spoken and things started to emerge. ... I've heard that somewhere before... "Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος ...", "וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי אוֹר; וַיְהִי-אוֹר"

  • @Paradigm2012Shift

    @Paradigm2012Shift

    4 жыл бұрын

    "In the beginning was the Word ..." Thanks for sharing. Best wishes, Lord-Jesus-Christ com

  • @patmoran5339

    @patmoran5339

    3 жыл бұрын

    When something cannot be explained, it is easiest to just claim "the god(s) did it."

  • @paulomiguel6484
    @paulomiguel64844 жыл бұрын

    Humanity closing the circle back to occult knowledge and the answers to current day questions. Soon science will start avidly studying the occult and then we will have the world all latest generations have lived and died longing for.

  • @ahmadfarrag6088
    @ahmadfarrag60884 жыл бұрын

    Data , Information, Knowledge, Wisdom. Please elaborate. Is this the computation or derivative?

  • @micmvp9074
    @micmvp90742 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Thank you. I wonder: What came first, information or ______. (Feeling, knowing, being the state, etc.) Is information is still part of the matter reality, is there something that could be antecedent.

  • @williampatton7476
    @williampatton74762 жыл бұрын

    God this channel is everything I ever wanted.

  • @elck3
    @elck34 жыл бұрын

    I feel information can best be explained by not what it is but what it isn’t, what is not there..

  • @fulldraw1580
    @fulldraw15803 жыл бұрын

    a relaxed scene, like the beginning of the docu with relaxed people is not tinkable now.

  • @carlito8003
    @carlito80034 жыл бұрын

    information seems to be the awareness of knowing what should be the role intrinsically of a bit

  • @patrickmoumiet
    @patrickmoumiet3 жыл бұрын

    I love your show! Can your told share which company provides your music at 1.59 minutes? Thanks

  • @DivertissementMonas1664
    @DivertissementMonas16643 жыл бұрын

    16:17 Mr Kuhn asks himself "But am I being persuaded that reality is information is more than metaphor? I can't tell, I don't have enough information." (Genius!) Mr Kuhn, you can always fall back on insight.. at least you will get understanding! Use your empathy too, because Seth Lloyd earnestly believes this worldview. Personally, I'd stick with the historical sense of what information is useful for. This will at least still give 'meaning' a foothold...

  • @meows_and_woof
    @meows_and_woof3 жыл бұрын

    Information is the way the energy is organised in the universe . It’s the fundamental property of reality.

  • @sibeguy
    @sibeguy4 жыл бұрын

    Information is just one dimension of reality. At the fundamental level it represents creation, 0 or 1 existence or absence. It brings forth the concept of value. Listening to this conversation there is an aspect that is just as important which is being ignored...that is process. When we break down the universe it can be represented with 3 concepts, property, result and process. At the simplest level think of Temperature (property), How it’s measured (process) and it’s Value (result). All three are necessary and important. I highly recommend you check out the work of Arthur M Young through his books The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.

  • @mikew8100
    @mikew81003 жыл бұрын

    I have been pondering a thought for a while, if I write a sentence on paper with a pen, you could say the sentence weighs the amount of ink used to write it. I I carve that same sentence into a cliff face, the weight of the sentence becomes a negative as I have now removed instead of added material, yet the meaning of the sentence remains the same. They say information is tied to physical reality, but has this thought, after being the movement of my fingers causing a series of button impressions, then becoming a vast serious of electrons and photons moving through a global network of wires and fiber-optics, compressed and manipulated through vast ranges of mathematics and languages, finally becoming a series of pixels on your screen and transferred to your brain via photons impressed upon the retinas of your eyes, has this thought caused you to gain or loose any mass within the confines of your body? I would conjecture that no it has not, and whats crazy is the many forms of physical reality this thought has taken while traveling from my mind to yours is meaningless without the equal levels of knowledge our minds posses, the understanding of the written English language and use of computers. This thought transcends space and time and in essence is not physical at all, I have pushed these buttons in your past in a place in spacetime where you never will be yet my mind has touched yours. What does this imply? Modern science takes for granted the idea that matter precedes mind, as shown in this video, hence humanities frantic search to understand how consciousness can arise from a physical brain. I think the little thought experiment above is proof that mind in fact precedes matter and that we are realy compound beings being composed of both body and mind or more specifically spirit. I think the practice of science is in fact a spiritual exercise for the immaterial mind to make sense of physical reality. Science is but one tool in a vast immaterial toolbox created and used by and for the wonder of the spiritual man. Which is bigger, a galaxy a billion light years away or the mind which peers across the universe and contemplates it?

  • @gronkogronksen9603

    @gronkogronksen9603

    2 жыл бұрын

    Highly underrated comment

  • @ditomaximal
    @ditomaximal4 жыл бұрын

    Maybe information is just an emerging phenomenon from the deeper workings of causality. Information has properties in common with causality. It requires some level of stability of properties over some processing steps as well as some stability of interaction pattern in processing steps. Thats all...

  • @mindofmayhem.
    @mindofmayhem.3 жыл бұрын

    At the heart of all reality is something that doesn't exist.

  • @simplyme4247
    @simplyme42473 жыл бұрын

    Information comes from exploring...it comes from interpreting and evolving

  • @buckanderson3520
    @buckanderson35202 жыл бұрын

    Information is just one thing telling another thing what to do.

  • @bobaldo2339
    @bobaldo23393 жыл бұрын

    It was "universe as machine", in the machine age. Now, in the computer age, everything is "information". Actually "information" is a common & necessarily vague word used in everyday speech. Its meaning depends entirely on the context in which it is used. But clearly some people want to take possession of the word, and make it into jargon.

  • @caricue

    @caricue

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bob Aldo, It seems as if these people actually believe that they have found information in nature. Information that was presumably created by nature and is just sitting there waiting for the scientist to come along and document it. If you say that DNA contains information, then presumably the cellular machinery is able to read and use the information. Does this mean that ribosomes are intelligent? Of what use would information be to molecular machines? It's true that a scientist can create information based on the genetic code, but the DNA itself is just a physical template for making RNA that acts as a template for proteins. It's a sort of projection to see information in physical systems, but that seems to be what's going on here.

  • @2010sunshine
    @2010sunshine3 жыл бұрын

    Information describes something which exists. The one that exists is more fundamental, which gives rise to information..

  • @realcygnus
    @realcygnus4 жыл бұрын

    I'd argue that ANY physical medium ONLY ever contains "data"(code symbols/bits/q-bits etc.) & that even goes for brains(neurons/impulses etc.). & that a "conscious agent" is indeed REQUIRED to interpret that data into "information"(the actual meaning), which btw storage, transfer & even display/visualization etc. are NOT. & somewhat ironically its actually physical realism that practically demands that distinction, even more so than most any other view imo, at least for the time being, until the "hard problem" is COMPLETELY "cracked". After all, its materialism that says the beautiful colors(information?) of a rainbow(for instance) are anything BUT beautiful colors(in themselves) & can ONLY be a projection(or even an illusion) of perceptions of abstract quantities(data?) like frequency/wavelength/intensity etc.

  • @mikebellamy

    @mikebellamy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Correct.. in fact 'information' is always a 'communication' with meaning and purpose from a mind to a mind in a language both can understand (ie that is the intent of the sender encapsulated by their purpose). Not all communication however is information because while communication always has a purpose it may not always have a meaning. The bit is also NOT a measure of the quantity of information because there is no quantitative measure of meaning. The bit is a measure of the signal capacity of a channel of communication.

  • @first1nameknows396
    @first1nameknows3964 жыл бұрын

    11:30 😏 but jokes aside this is very interesting, some parts are hard for me to understand but I think I get the idea

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski86022 жыл бұрын

    Time goes from abstract possibility to energy probability; information goes from bits of quantum energy probability to bits of classic matter certainty?