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RogerS comments on Removing Bias From the Definition of Reductionism - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: RogerS 27 March 2013 06:06PM

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Comment author: RogerS 20 April 2013 02:07:30PM 0 points [-]

I'm not clear what you are meaning by "spatial slice". That sounds like all of space at a particular moment in time. In speaking of a space-time region I am speaking of a small amount of space (e.g. that occupied by one file on a hard drive) at a particular moment in time.

Comment author: PrawnOfFate 20 April 2013 02:11:20PM -1 points [-]

Your can prove conservation of information over small space times volumes without positing information as an ontological extra ingredient. You will also get false positives over larger space time volumes.