Lossless compression preserves entropy. Lossy doesn't. The meaning of a certain sequence of bits depends on interpretation, of course. But nobody is talking ab

Lossless compression preserves entropy. Lossy doesn't. The meaning of a certain sequence of bits depends on interpretation, of course. But nobody is talking about meaning here, only entropy. For our purpose it wouldn't matter if there were no sentient beings in the universe to attribute any meaning to anything.