Nature of information Poll results...

The results of the poll about the nature of information are in. Ontic cafe will run a longer poll within the next day or so. Also look out for an article about the information density of fractals. The next article in the series about whether evolution of the genome and protein synthesis obeys informational laws is also due in the next two days.

One preliminary note about the results of the poll is that there is little to indicate that subjectivism or pluralism are intuitively or perhaps otherwise pre-eminent positions. This is somewhat surprising as pluralism is the position of leading philosophers, and subjectivism has also often been a popular position.

So the  previous poll results were as follows:

Does information exist apart from perceiving agents (without some thinking organism to perceive it)?

Yes (Objectivism about information)	25 (69%)
No (Subjectivism about information)	8 (22%)
Depends upon context (Pluralism about information)	4 (11%)
Information is an abstracta (Platonism about information)	0 (0%)
Information is somehow statistical (Probabilism about information)	3 (8%)
Not Sure	0 (0%)

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Votes so far: 36
Days left to vote: 21

The Poll has been relaunched.