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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alberto G. Corona
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2015 12:24 AM
To: everything-list
Subject: Re: Food for thought
Current global growth estimates are that every two days, the world is now
creating as much new digital information as all the data ever created from the
dawn of humans through the current century. It has been estimated that by 2020,
the size of the world’s digital universe will be close to 44 trillion gigabytes
Wow!
It sems that one image is worth a thousands Shakespeare books...
Moreover, most of what happens to be information is really disinformation, not
only noise. Most of the output of he media is not only garbage, but interested
manipulation, conscious or unconscious.
Most information volume is not even directly created by humans. Vast amounts of
information are being machine generated by algorithmic processes. On one level
information is anything that can be stored, transmitted, transformed or
otherwise processed. It does not matter at this level whether it is good
information or useless or even harmful information. These are values we assign
to it and these arise out of our interaction with information. Information
itself is without any sense of value; it just is. Treating it in this manner as
just the series of ones and zeroes that describe some particular digital
pattern is useful in terms of handling it, compressing it and otherwise doing
things with it.
At some point however the external contextual information (context is also
itself information) needs to come into play in order to do anything useful with
it or make any statements about its value – or lack of value.
Chris
information is anything that reduces the entropy of the receiver. The more
information, the less the entropy. this reduction of entropy is due to a
reduction of uncertainty. that reduction of uncertainty means that with this
information the receiver can plan the future more accurately because his
knowledge of reality is better. His "internal agitation" is reduced, danger of
being harm is reduced. I may sweat less, my stress is reduced, my inmune
system will work again and will fight infections. I will take time to learn, I
will lie less, drink less alcohol and will spend less time wandering in the
nigh doing risky things to perpetuate my genes. I will invest my money instead
of consuming it.
That stabilization happens because I know what to do to survive at a longer
timespan so I can do it better. I can help others and others can help myself or
my children by doing efforts that produce results only after years, decades of
even after we passed away
So what is information depends on the receiver. if I receive a document in
chinese that information is 0 for me. If then I receive a rare and excelent
manual on Chinese and I take time to learn chinese and the previous message is
a document that would help me to be millionaire then the information of the
later message is huge, because the first message was a part of my reality and
under my circumstances I used that information.
Then there are negative information: the one that increase the entropy of the
receiver. it simply can waste my time ot may produce erroneous decissions, so
the sender can do some kind of depredation on me.
2015-04-18 19:24 GMT+02:00 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Telmo Menezes
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2015 12:22 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Food for thought
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 6:36 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
On 4/17/2015 11:56 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
Current global growth estimates are that every two days, the world is now
creating as much new digital information as all the data ever created from the
dawn of humans through the current century. It has been estimated that by 2020,
the size of the world’s digital universe will be close to 44 trillion gigabytes
If I take a picture with my smartphone is that counted as "creating
information"?
I suspect it is, but we must remember that not everything that can be counted
counts.
What about the masterpiece that nobody ever sees, hears or reads? I am sure
many great works of thought have been utterly lost and many more have never
been experienced outside of the brains of their creators. Perhaps some
fundamental theoretical work is even now languishing in utter obscurity. Is
this “creating information” or does “creating information” depend on it
becoming consumed (and entangled with other streams of information)?
Chris
Telmo.
Brent
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