Bumblebee information

 

The AI´s view of a "an argumentative bumblebee"

Richard Carrier is angry at something. Again. Well, I´m not convinced. This time either. Consciousness is entirely physical (argues Carrier) and something really can come out of nothing without a cause. Here is a paragraph:

>>>You can see this with picking up and rolling ever larger dice. The larger the die, the more bits of information it can spontaneously create (without intelligent intervention). Each die, unrolled, contains all possible information states for that die; and twenty-sided dice have more informational states than six-sided dice. Hence any randomizer, like a die, already contains all the information it would take to describe all of its possible states. When I roll that die, one state among them is selected, and so we say we now have actual information. But it was not created intelligently. To the contrary, it was created randomly. 

>>>So an infinitely sided die (like an unbounded nothing-state could be) starts with infinite potential information, and thus the first Big Bang (if ever there was a “first” one) could contain any amount of randomly realized information. No intelligence is required for that because no intelligent selection of all possible states is being made. The selection is necessarily random and thus by definition not intelligent.

An "unbounded nothing-state" would be an "infinitely sided die". Ooookay. Yeah, if the unbounded nothing-state is the One of Plotinus, maybe. Or the Tao. Not otherwise. 

And that´s that.  

Is God needed for "information" and "laws"?