Re: [asa] Information and knowledge

On 4/12/07, David Opderbeck <dopderbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> *Let's go through the basic elements of Shannon's thinking*:
>
> Yes, but you are being too literal in how it applies. Shannon originally
> thought of his ideas in the context of communications networks. They have
> been extended to other areas, including computational biology.
>

If there is no "communication" there is no "information". You can think of
this differently but it ceases to be information theory.

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Received on Thu Apr 12 17:51:39 2007