Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Information: The New Language of Science by Hans Christian von Baeyer

An attempt to make information the basic building block of science, even of matter, in the form of the qubit. The author tries to go past Shannon to include meaning of messages. In my opinion his explanation of Shannon is incomplete and his approach to message content is very vague. His discussion of Bayes is interesting and intriguing and may in fact be a mathematical path towards meaning in messages.

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