Dear Yutaka,

Very nice essay with a good logical base to it. In fact you've helped me think more about my essay with regard to the number of samples. The uncertainty principle allows only position or momentum to be know precisely. I examine how information is received and revealed, and until I read your essay hadn't considered whether this mattered to my theory. Please take a look if you get chance.

I am going to rate your essay highly, not only for assisting in furthering my work, but also being great in its own right!

Well done!

Antony

    Dear Yutaka:

    I very much like your operational point of view. It seems to me that it is key to a better understanding of information. I think I am not clear what you mean when you say

    Operational thinking has been formalized as information theory.

    Can you explain what you mean here?

    Cheers

    Olaf

      Yutaka,

      Excellent. Much needed. Thank you, and do please stay in touch on it.

      Peter

      Dear Yutaka,

      Excellent essay and a good strategy to "seize" (understand) the nature of the information and its "place" physical picture of the world. You need to be much higher total rating.

      I fully agree with your search strategy: «As my personal project, I will try to construct theory of information with small number of samples.» Totally agree with you that «the operational viewpoint» well as the "ontological" leads to "grasp" of nature information. In this regard, only one question.

      Constructive ways to the truth may be different. One of them said Alexander Zenkin in the article "Science counterrevolution in mathematics":

      «The truth should be drawn with the help of the cognitive computer visualization technology and should be presented to" an unlimited circle "of spectators in the form of color-musical cognitive images of its immanent essence».

      http://www.ccas.ru/alexzen/papers/ng-02/contr_rev.htm

      In the russian version of the paper that thought shorter: "the truth should be drawn and presented to" an unlimited number »of viewers".

      Do you agree with Alexander Zenkin?

      Please read my essay with "the ontological viewpoint»."

      Best regards,

      Vladimir

        Dear all,

        Thank you so much for your reading and scoring. I will reply my threads tomorrow. Sorry for inconvenience.

        Best wishes,

        Yutaka

          Dear Edwin,

          Thank you so much for your comment.

          > I question whether "These from Bits" has the same meaning, however, as Wheeler's (Landauer's?) saying.

          Yes. The same concept is the Wheeler one. However, I pointed out that the conventional amount of information cannot be used in physics contexts.

          Best wishes,

          Yutaka

          Dear Héctor,

          Thank you so much for your comment. I think that this is not too much mathematical concepts in my essay. Anyways, I am interested in your essay too. See you on your threads.

          Best wishes,

          Yutaka

          Dear Antony,

          Thank you so much for your points. However, this problem is in classical physics. Of course, this is in quantum mechanics. While your comments slightly help my thoughts, this is not direct answer.

          Best wishes,

          Yutaka

          Hi Olaf,

          Thank you so much for your interests. Operational thinking is the step-by-step understanding or event sequence. Originally, information theory tries to construct this thinking process quantitatively. Therefore, my quote is summarized. Does my answer satisfy your criticisms?

          Best wishes,

          Yutaka

          Dear Vladimir,

          Thank you so much for your interesting points. As far as I understand, Alexander Zenkin pointed out the different way to construct the meta-theory. Surely, such problems should be considered. However, my pointed-out problem is different. While the single event cannot construct the theory, we can tell something. For examples, the single-particle trajectory can be predicted by solving the Hamiltonia w/ the initial condition. Therefore, while I agree with Alexander Zenkin consideration, this essay is not related too much.

          Best wishes,

          Yutaka

          Dear Yukata,

          Indeed. My essay is Quantum Gravity, where the large scale Universe meets the infinitesimally small. I hope my high rating helped your ranking!

          Best wishes,

          Antony

          Hi Yutaka,

          Thanks for the comment over on my page, glad to see you moving up the rankings, I'm glad my score helped. I'm going the other way.

          Oh well.

          All the best,

          Antony

          Dear Yutaka,

          We are at the end of this essay contest.

          In conclusion, at the question to know if Information is more fundamental than Matter, there is a good reason to answer that Matter is made of an amazing mixture of eInfo and eEnergy, at the same time.

          Matter is thus eInfo made with eEnergy rather than answer it is made with eEnergy and eInfo ; because eInfo is eEnergy, and the one does not go without the other one.

          eEnergy and eInfo are the two basic Principles of the eUniverse. Nothing can exist if it is not eEnergy, and any object is eInfo, and therefore eEnergy.

          And consequently our eReality is eInfo made with eEnergy. And the final verdict is : eReality is virtual, and virtuality is our fundamental eReality.

          Good luck to the winners,

          And see you soon, with good news on this topic, and the Theory of Everything.

          Amazigh H.

          I rated your essay.

          Please visit My essay.

          Dr. Shikano,

          Quoting from the text:

          "The famous parallel between thermodynamics and information theory is the para- dox of Maxwell's demon [4], explained as follows. Consider a molecular gas inside a box. The box contains a partition that divides it into two regions, and the partition has a window that can be either open or shut. The demon operates this window. When the demon sees molecules moving at higher speeds, he guides them to the left side of the box via the window. Similarly, the demon guides molecules moving at lower speeds to the right side of the box. The demon repeats this process repeatedly. Eventually, the tempera- ture in the left of the box increases, and vice versa. This seems to violate the second law of thermodynamics, and was taken as the paradoxical issue."

          The definitions of thermodynamic properties are precise and ideal. Clausius' definition of thermodynamic entropy is precise and ideal. The ideal for temperature is that there are no faster molecules. The ideal for thermodynamic properties in general is that large numbers of molecules are involved. It seems to me that Maxwell violated the second law causing his demon to follow suit.

          I have rated your essay just now. Your forthright opinion is invited. Thank you.

          James Putnam

          Dear Yutaka,

          Very interesting essay. I liked your discussion of "physics imperialism" vs the operational approach, and the relation with the "it" and "bit" question. And the provisional conclusion "these from bits", and the need to extend information theory to small-number samples of non-typical sequences. Good luck!

          Best regards,

          Cristi Stoica

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          Dear all,

          Thank you so much for your effort and evaluation. I am very happy to receive the fourth prize of this essay contest. I found the typos on my original essay. The modified essay is attached.

          --- The list of change ----

          The last 7 line in Section 1: Rolf William Landauer'sfamous quote: -> John Archibald Wheeler's famous quote:

          The last 7 line in Section 4: Landauer's famous slogan ... -> Wheeler's famous slogan ...

          Reference 9 information is updated.

          ----------------------------

          Best wishes,

          YutakaAttachment #1: fqxi4.pdf

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