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INFOWAR: Re: essential unit of human experience
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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 98
INFOWAR. information.macht.krieg
Linz, Austria, september 07 - 12
http://www.aec.at/infowar
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Douglas.
RE "people can and should understand that information -- like weather,
bullets, or any other influence -- is a medium and not necessarily the
essential unit of human experience."
This got me a little mixed up. I can't help seeing a significant difference
between weather (and essential unit of the human experience indeed!), bullets
(not essential to the human experience, though when they do happen, bullets do
carry some very signifiant information!) and 'any other influence'...
Without information, which I can't see as merely a 'medium', there'd be no
growth, development or adaptation for any living entity.
I do think that information is an essential unit of the human experience;
without it there would be no knowledge and, actually, no experience!
This is why these dialogues are so important!
Josepha
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