On 4/19/2015 11:33 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
I agree on some level; however in the case of the one million zero bits I would argue that in the context of the given query or search this result may be the precise information that is desired and the noise bits are rejected by the query because the query is searching for that the maximum zero bit sequence (that in the particular information domain would carry some significance). What I am pointing out is that without knowledge of the domain and the significance of a bit being on or off it is hard to discern or make statements about any sequence of bits. Sure we can make mathematical statements about the inherent complexity of the sequence (as you correctly did) but without knowing the representational context does this really give us that much insight into the potential content in the “message”?
Exactly my point. Shannon's information is just what is required to distinguish between messages. In general there must be a decision theoretic context of actions, risks, and values in order to assign meaning to the message.
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