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Isn't it simple? Information is the content of a message from one intelligent being to another such that the recipient can understand the intended meaning of th
by galaxyLogic 6y ago
Isn't it simple? Information is the content of a message from one intelligent being to another such that the recipient can understand the intended meaning of the message.
Random bits a can randomly arrange into a a configuration that looks like information. But that is not information because there is no intended message behind it. Whereas if an intelligent being organizes a set of bits into a configuration say like in a zip-file which looks like random bits, it is information because it can be decoded into meaning.
Information can not exist without "meaning".
- vladTheInhaler 6y agoThat's just not true. Whether the message is from an "intelligent" source or not, it can still contain information. When you make an observation of a random process, you decrease your uncertainty about its state, or in other words, you lower its entropy. In the process, information has been communicated to you.
- galaxyLogic 5y agoAre you saying that the act of observation decreases entropy of the observed system? Or are you saying that entropy is fully in the "eye of the beholder"? If I observe something and you observe the same thing but longer, you reduce the entropy further (for yourself) than I do?