What are you? EvC poll

The problem you're having with comprehension here is that when Rob says that your statement that information is an abstraction "contradicts itself", it's because when he reads a statement like

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Information is an abstraction.

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the only way he knows how to interpret it is like this:

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There is no such thing as truth.

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Just wanted to make sure you both were on the same page.

No, you're not. You're conflating a number of seperate concepts that really have nothing to do with each other. For instance, an "abstraction" is not the same as a "lie." Many abstractions are true.A book contains no information if no one is able to read it. Information is simply an arrangement of matter - an abstraction - that causes changes in our brains, through our senses, that we recognize as information. If that information happens to be a true statement about the world, it's not because of anything the statement contains in itself; it's because we all have rules about how to create statements that improve the odds that they'll be true. We call those rules "reason."And, no, I'm not condradicting myself. My statements are both abstractions and true.