Kristine
Posts: 3061 Joined: Sep. 2006
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Quote (dheddle @ Mar. 27 2009,10:42) | Quote (AmandaHuginKiss @ Mar. 27 2009,10:28) | Quote (Richardthughes @ Mar. 28 2009,03:01) | Don't you have to follow all the sub-ingredients down until you have to make matter? |
Not only that you need to develop the recipe in such a way that aliens can interpret it otherwise it is just some random gibberish |
I sense a novel here --it opens medias res with Richard Hughes eating a Hostess Hoho--and employs flashback to explain how the recipe arrived encoded in EPCDIC (lower case only.)
EDIT: spelling |
Not to mention you'd also have to follow all the "definitions" of all the words in the recipe down to the definitions of the words in the definitions, and then in each of those definitions, etc., etc.
So, I go figure skating and trace a figure-8 in the ice, it's worth 8 ASCII bits? Because what about if I change to doing a rocker or a loop? I'm not aware of any written instructions on how to learn, really learn, figure skating. You have to learn from another human being, through imitation. Does this mean that skating has no content, Joe? Because I would argue that it contains a lot more information than football (but maybe we shouldn't go there).
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"I happen to think that this prerequisite criterion of empirical evidence is itself not empirical." - Clive
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