I have a feeling you may be conflating some concepts in information theory, and possibly redefining information in multiple places. Goldilocks and Red Riding H

I have a feeling you may be conflating some concepts in information theory, and possibly redefining information in multiple places. Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood require a codec to decipher. Otherwise they are literally just strings of bits. A simple codec can take the bitstring and encode it as characters. So that you, may use your codec (your eyes) to send an encoding to another codec (your brain) to decipher and finally intepret the meaning. Codecs are kind of a tricky thing, in that they can compress a lot of information into a single bit, but to set up that compression requires a lot of ‘work’ outside the scope of a given transmission window. To answer your question as to which story contains more information, you need to first ask ‘how sophisticated is my codec?’ I can tell you from watching children grow up, the same story can have vastly different information conveyed depending on when the story is consumed.