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What Shannon’s method fails to capture by ignoring meaning is knowledge—that is, information with causal power.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
relative fitness. Noise, at least some noise, was filtered out. Mathematically, progress means that some new information is better than past information, not that the average of new information will supplant past information, which means that it is optimal for someone, when in doubt, to systematically reject the new idea, information, or method.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
second law of thermodynamics—in closed systems, entropy will either increase or stay constant, never spontaneously decrease.
Sean M. Carroll • The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
The growth of entropy is nothing other than the ubiquitous and familiar natural increase of disorder.
Carlo Rovelli • The Order of Time
Shannon’s insight was that we can, with care, make the encoding more robust, at the cost of some extra data.
Caleb Scharf • The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
how long life can last in a universe that obeys the second law,