Doug -
Is anybody else tickled at how this Quote Of The Week elicited a flood
of philosophical observations?
--Doug
Utterly pink! PINK I tell you! And you are making it worse with your
own tickling! /STOPPPP/!
I just deleted one of my typical "DNRTL" (did not read, too long)
missives and offer up instead a few simple relevant thoughts with links
for the interested reader:
* Russel Akoff's hierarchy of Data->Information->Knowledge->Wisdom
<http://www.systems-thinking.org/dikw/dikw.htm>.
* Predictability as a dual of Banality
<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/banal>
* Laplace's Daemon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_Demon>
and Determinism vs Predictability
* Information theory in Cryptology: by expanding (or contracting)
"the system" by as small of an amount as a decryption key, the
(relative?) Entropy of a system goes from small to huge or
vice-versa.
Carry on!
- Steve
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