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A bit is the fundamental unit of information theory, and has nothing to do with digital logic in this context. No one is saying "ok use one bit to encode male o
by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
A bit is the fundamental unit of information theory, and has nothing to do with digital logic in this context. No one is saying "ok use one bit to encode male or female". No one is saying "ok 101 means serotonin, and 110 is dopamine". What they are saying is that the information content produced by a human being can be compressed down to about 10 bits per second, but this is a statistical description.
- MrMcCall 2y agoYou said both nothing to do with digital logic in this context and compressed down to about 10 bits per second Sounds like digital compression from where I sit, friend. Are you using an information theory that is based upon something different from Shannon's?
- VyseofArcadia 2y ago"Compression" here is nontechnical, and I was using it by analogy as an aid to intuition. I didn't want to throw out the E word (entropy) unnecessarily.
- MrMcCall 2y agoAre you using "bit" in a sense different to Wikipedia's definition, as linked from Claude Shannon's page?