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Letter: Logical flaw

Published 2 May 2007

From Teo Leyssen

Michael Brooks writes: “If information is always physical in some way, all physical processes can be seen as a form of information processing,” (31 March, p 30). This seems to me to be false logic, yet a lot about the existence of quantum gravity computers depends on it. “All buses are red” would not mean that “all red things are buses”.

Saint Genest Lachamp, Ardèche, France

Issue no. 2602 published 5 May 2007

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