Not exactly, I don't think. In the Shannon formulation, there isn't a notion of "too much information" -- it is all symbols. But in reality, too many photons

Not exactly, I don't think. In the Shannon formulation, there isn't a notion of "too much information" -- it is all symbols. But in reality, too many photons can burn our eyes or a denial of service attack can break a website. Too much information is a reality --because we are thermodynamic entities. I don't see how to understand that with Shannon.