A quick introduction to the philosophy of information. Why Brains have more information than stars.

Brains have more information than stars. You know about stars, but they do not know about you. It does not follow that information is knowledge. Information is a necessary condition for the obtaining of knowledge, but knowledge is not a necessary condition for the existence of information. Intrigued? Of course you are. Let Dr Bruce Long - an expert in the philosophy of information, the philosophy of science, and cognitive science - explain to you why very structurally and functionally complex information source states, sources, and sets of sources are incredibly unlikely to just appear without any long term evolutionary processes.

That applies to Boltzmann brains (Davidsonian 'swapman' brains in Dr Long's IIMx blog article) and gods too!

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