In message <199904182126a4993@?>, psypher <overload@fastmail.ca> writes
>
> Imaginary things, ideals, ideas and such
>> are items of subjective information. These patterns are real in the
>> sense that Eric says ideas are, i.e. being encoded in brains, if not
>> also books etc. But it's a different kind of reality, requiring
>> information processing to reveal it, which is why it's subjective --
>> it depends on the right sort of processing being done on it. Unlike
>> objective information, belonging to simple physical things, which
>> just exists with no processing required.
>
>...the problem I see with this is that, in principle, no information
>is of any greater significance than any other.
Isn't significance subjective?
>The universe as such
>cannot saud to "consist" of anything, it is not composed of parts. It
>IS.