Revisions of #1288
Contributors: Knut Sondre Sæbø, Dennis Hackethal
If we use Claud Shannon’s framework of understanding information as reducing uncertainty, a light switch doesn’t contain information. But the problem with all kinds of information is that it is dependent on how you subjectively define states and uncertainty. Information is always relative to a certain «perspective». If we use Claud Shannon’s framework of understanding information as reducing uncertainty, a light switch doesn’t contain information. But the problem with all kinds of information is that it is dependent on how you subjectively define states and uncertainty. Information is always relative to a certain «perspective».
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Will move this criticism as a criticism of the main idea, since it is a criticism of the first premise.
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If we useClaudClaude Shannon’s framework ofunderstandinginformation as reducing uncertainty, a light switch doesn’t contain information. But the problem with all kinds of information is that itis dependentdepends onhow yousubjectivelydefinedefinitions 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».