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If we use ClaudClaude Shannon’s framework ofunderstanding information as reducing uncertainty, a light switch doesn’t contain information. But the problem with all kinds of information is that it is dependentdepends onhow you subjectively definedefinitions of states and uncertainty. Information is always relative to a certain «perspective».

If we use Claude Shannon’s framework of information as reducing uncertainty, a light switch doesn’t contain information. But the problem with all kinds of information is that it depends on subjectively definitions of states and uncertainty. Information is always relative to a certain «perspective».

#1493 · Dennis Hackethal · 11 days ago