10Oct 2026 by Post

Being as Communion: The Metaphysics of Information

Angus Menuge, Aristotle, Ashgate, Being as Communion, blueprints, Brian Krouse, Claude Shannon, engineers, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Faith & Science, Holy Spirit, information, informational realism, language, logos, metaphysics, mind-body problem, musicians, My Personal History with Information (series), No Free Lunch, ontology, painters, philosophy, Plato, Robert J. Marks II, sculptors, Templeton Foundation, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, Trinitarian God
"Painters create information by applying dabs of paint to canvas, sculptors by chiseling away at stone, musicians by writing notes on lined sheets of paper." Source
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06Oct 2026 by Post

Evolutionary Computing: An Audit of Smuggled Information

Baylor University, Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Computational Sciences, Darwinian evolution, David Thomas, Denmark, displacement, Evolution, evolutionary computing, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, George Montañez, Harvard University, Iain Strachan, information, Intelligent Design, Isak Dinesen, Jakob Wolf, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Leo Kadanoff, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Nature (journal), Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr Institute, Richard Dawkins, Richard E. Lenski, Robert J. Marks II, Robert T. Pennock, smuggling, Steiner trees, Thomas Schneider, University of Copenhagen, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
The most significant stop for me in Denmark was a lecture that Jakob Wolf arranged for me to give at the Niels Bohr Institute. Source
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29Feb 2024 by Post

Specified Complexity as a Unified Information Measure

algorithmic specified complexity, cars, Evolution, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Kolmogorov information, Kraft inequality, languages, No Free Lunch, Philosophia Christi, probabilistic resources, Robert Marks, royal flush, Shannon information, Specification: The Pattern That Signifies Intelligence, specified complexity, Specified Complexity Made Simple (series), The Design Inference, Winston Ewert
The most important take away here is that specified complexity makes Shannon information and Kolmogorov information commensurable. Source
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