Hmmmm!

Something bothers me about the notion of an information explosion.  

Let's say that information is a statement about the number of different
things in the world that could possibly be pointed out.  Then information
is a constant, or infinite, or both, eh?  

Lets say that information is astatement about what can becommunicated from
one human being to another.  Then it depends, does it not, on the ability
of humans to process.  then information can increase only if our ability to
process increases and there can never be an over load of information.  

Am I nuts, but does this notion of information overload only arise from
using the word "information" simultaneously in these to somewhat
contradictory senses????

Nick 


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