As I discussed in my last post, Claude Shannon defined information as the number of bits needed to communicate an arrangement or state of a system. The fundamental problem of communication is not to make oneself understood, but to reproduce “at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.” The destination… Continue reading Desktop Medicine
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It from Bit
The universe is composed of energy, matter, and information. However, it is not energy nor matter that makes the Earth unique, but information. No known place in the known universe holds more information than Earth. It is said, our planet is to information what a black hole is to matter and what a star is… Continue reading It from Bit
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