... My perception is that decoding the Martian tablets is equivalent to ... decryption of an encoded signal. The Martians haven't deliberately encrypted their meaning,... infinitely many possible interpretations of those tablets. hey! you gave me 10^80...i.e., that we and the Martians inhabit a common solar system. But we cannot know whether the Martians perceived the solar system in the...

... My perception is that decoding the Martian tablets is equivalent to ...decryption of an encoded signal. The Martians haven't deliberately encrypted their meaning...infinitely many possible interpretations of those tablets. Someone mentioned that there is a...i.e., that we and the Martians inhabit a common solar system. ... we cannot know whether the Martians perceived the solar system in ...

...> My perception is that decoding the Martian tablets is equivalent to decryption of an encoded signal. The Martians haven't deliberately encrypted their meaning...infinitely many possible interpretations of those tablets. Someone mentioned that there is a...i.e., that we and the Martians inhabit a common solar system. But we cannot know whether the Martians perceived the solar system in ...

...over the channel, where it is decoded. The recipient then has information about...was probably wrong to choose your martian tablets as an exemplar without anything but planetary context the tablets can hold many secrets i know... many possible interpretations of those tablets. hey! you gave me 10^... we cannot know whether the Martians perceived the solar system in ...

...over the channel, where it is decoded. The recipient then has information about...was probably wrong to choose your martian tablets as an exemplar without anything but planetary context the tablets can hold many secrets i know... many possible interpretations of those tablets. hey! you gave me 10^... we cannot know whether the Martians perceived the solar system in ...

... Smith <Andy@phoenixsystems.co.uk> wrote: But in the context ha ha of the Martian tablets, unless they are kind enough to provide context for aliens, in the form of ... of redundancy in them. So if we write a tablet, we will inadvertently include a primer - except it ... and one can speculate concerning the purpose of the tablets in relation to their civilisation etc. So my ...

..., signalling a problem in interpretation. If we have no context for the martian tablets at all I think they are logically uninterpretable. (I think) Depends...But in the context ha ha of the Martian tablets, unless they are kind enough to provide context for aliens, in the ...one can speculate concerning the purpose of the tablets in relation to their civilisation etc. So ...

... a PDF header to a word document, however, and the importer will probably choke on it, signalling a problem in interpretation. If we have no context for the martian tablets at all I think they are logically uninterpretable. (I think) Depends on the amount of redundancy.

... number of contexts, and we know which one of those that it is. I think information is always shared equally between a message and its context. If we have no context for the martian tablets at all I think they are logically uninterpretable. (I think) -- Andy Smith

... over the channel, where it is decoded. The recipient then has information about ...infinitely many possible interpretations of those tablets. hey! you gave me 10^80...But we cannot know whether the Martians perceived the solar system in the...might recover a clue from the Martian rocks. we cannot guarantee any ... and us, which can unambiguously decode the data received. So we ...