This is my first post to this list - so my apologies if I get it wrong.
I am looking for arguments for/against the concept of information as "form
conveyed by data". Any references/ideas would be appreciated.
Dick
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ivity from Shannon type
communication to biological (DNA) activity, but I am not sure it can be
applied to chemical activity.
To my "un-informed" way of thinking chemical interaction is more like (a) -
a passive response - rather than a selective active response as in (b).
Dick Stoute
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Please allow me to respond to Loet about the definition of information
stated below.
1. the definition of information as uncertainty is counter-intuitive
("bizarre"); (p. 27)
I agree. I struggled with this definition for a long time before realising
that Shannon was really discussing "a
that makes us believe that we are capable of direct perception.
Once this is done we can create a set of integrated models that link neural
activity to information theory and a new representational language theory
that is very similar to Shannon information theory.
Dick Stoute
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useful for many
purposes, but we must recognise that each component of this duality is an
abstraction of an integrated substrate. On this approach, we confuse
ourselves when we create a duality and then impose it on what it represents.
Sincerely,
Dick Stoute
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