Intelligence and Halting Oracles

[EricMH (Eric Michael Holloway)]

@Dan_Eastwood

MI is not a thing that exists in a physical way, it is a measurement between two systems (say A and B ). If A and B are identical or nearly identical then they will share a high degree of MI.
We can easily imagine a physical process that produces identical copies of the same system; for instance, all water molecules share a relatively high degree of MI.

I believe the resolution to this conundrum is pretty straightforward.

A is the thing to be copied, and there is a function F that produces B, the copy. F needs the information in A to create B, so there is no information creation going on:

I(F:A) >= I(B:A).