Can ‘information’ exist in the world independently of the mind?
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Workshop # 24, Objectivity of Information, Series 10, (S8,15)
This event begins at 7.30pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30pm UK, 7.30am NY
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THIS WEEK: Philosophical ‘realism’ holds that properties of the world like shape, number, or even colour, exist independently of our perception. On the other hand, nominalists or subjectivists hold that some, if not all, of these properties, like colour, taste and value are produced by the mind. The question is, how far does this subjectivity go? Are shape, number and information also products of the mind? And can belief in such properties be explained by the difficulty of understanding not only consciousness, but the products of consciousness, and what exists in the absence of consciousness? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 6, Scn. xi.