The Conservation of Information Law

John W. Burgeson (johnburgeson@juno.com)
Fri, 20 Feb 1998 15:23:42 -0700

I found this in P. D. Medewar's 1984 book, THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE:

(page 79) No process of logical reasoning -- no mere act of mind or
computer-programmable operation -- can enlarge the information content of
the axioms and premises or observation statements from which it proceeds.

...(page 81) The propositions and observation statements of science have
empirical furniture only ... the Law ... makes it clear that from
observation statements or descriptive laws having only empirical
furniture there is no process of reasoning by which we may derive
theorems having to do with first and last things... .

Burgy