Comments on: Lyn Horton: Information Is Light Bulb http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2009/02/lyn-horton-information-is-light-bulb/ The world as heard by the JJA's writers Thu, 02 May 2013 21:02:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lyn http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2009/02/lyn-horton-information-is-light-bulb/comment-page-1/#comment-13896 Lyn Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:26:14 +0000 http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/?p=180#comment-13896 David Pogue writes a weekly column called Circuits. It is without fail that he brings up questions and answers for the moment (cause that is about how long technological history lasts without changing) in technology’s evolution. In this article, he deals with the number of Applications on the iPhone and how with every passing minute, those applications are increasing. I cite this article here for the purpose of supporting the idea of how necessary the application of information is. As well as how important it is to NEVER forget that humans are responsible for culture. And no matter how many APPs exist in the handheld computer device world, the creation of their substance is human; the formation is APPs is collectively human and technological.

Music is a human creation. We cannot forget that we are human.
This is a simple concept. It is a concept that in itself in order to be truly comprehended requires consciousness and creative thinking.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/technology/personaltech/05pogue-email.html?8cir&emc=cira1

]]> By: Lyn http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2009/02/lyn-horton-information-is-light-bulb/comment-page-1/#comment-13442 Lyn Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:27:26 +0000 http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/?p=180#comment-13442 Right.

]]> By: admin http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/2009/02/lyn-horton-information-is-light-bulb/comment-page-1/#comment-13422 admin Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:20:28 +0000 http://www.jazzhouse.org/diary/?p=180#comment-13422 Lyn, the confusions you address here have been much discussed, and largely left unresolved, in recent philosophy, particularly since Thomas Nagel‘s “What is it like to be a bat?” was published in 1974. On one end of the spectrum are those who think that information in and of itself constitutes consciousness, for instance David Chalmers. Elsewhere on the spectrum are the intriguing views on music of Brian Josephson, a physicist who suspects music is closer to expressing the essence of consciousness than any other of our forms of communication. Not sure where how he’d answer your question on music vis à vis information. Is music (or consciousness for that matter) beyond information – something which holds and organizes it – or is it comprised, as Chalmers would have it, entirely of information itself? In Nagel’s view, even after you’ve exhausted a listing of all the information present, consciousness is yet something more. Might Josephson be right that music is the closest thing we have, among our modes of expression, to that something more?

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