Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Its defining feature is connection rather than representation,

Rather, what information does is to create new realities by tying together disparate things—whether

The naive view further believes that the solution to the problems caused by misinformation and disinformation is more information.

counterspeech doctrine,

the naive view argues that information is an attempt to represent reality, and when this attempt succeeds, we call it truth.

Information, however, does not have to consist of human-made symbols.

human-made symbols like spoken or written words.

“information”

Information is increasingly seen by many philosophers and biologists, and even by some physicists, as the most basic building block of reality, more elementary than matter and energy.[1]