The nature of information has been reviewed and analysed many times, and from different perspectives, as noted in a previous article by myself and Lyn Robinson. New reviews can always give new insight, and a particularly illuminating one is given by Luke Tredinnick from the School of Computing and Digital Media at London Metropolitan University,… Continue reading Information re-reviewed
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Entropy. How little we (still) know,
Entropy, and its complex and subtle relations with information, has been an interest of mine for a long while, a paper on the subject being updated by posts on this blog. Since the last blog post, a number of interesting ideas have been put forward. The first is not really new, having been made available… Continue reading Entropy. How little we (still) know,
“A truly inherent property”: information in genetics
One of my long-standing interests has been informational gap-bridging, examining different conceptions of information, and how they may manifest in the physical and biological sciences. Ideas of information as a component of the biological sciences have grown steadily since Lila Gatlin's pioneering studies of the information content of the genetic code. In an open access… Continue reading “A truly inherent property”: information in genetics
The weight of information
The status of the concept of information in the physical world, and in particular its relation to entropy, continues to attract discussion and controversy. A relation between information and physical entropy, and hence energy, was first shown by Leo Szilard, while Rolf Landauer and Charles Bennett later showed that erasing information has an inescapable energy… Continue reading The weight of information
Still waiting for Carnot: information and complexity
Back in 2015, Lyn Robinson and I published an article in the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology [1], which gave an analysis of the relation between information and complexity, showing that ideas of complexity, organization, and 'interesting order', were intertwined with concepts of information, and of entropy. In particular, we noted… Continue reading Still waiting for Carnot: information and complexity
The Occasional Informationist 