Big Ideas: Information
Simplifying Complexity
The Importance of Information in Complex Systems
The concept of information comes from Claude Shannon in the mid- 1900s. He was considered the father of modern information theory. The key features are that it's reduction in uncertainty, copyable and retains its meaning. When I first came across this concept about energy being neither created nor destroyed, I still find it difficult to get into my head.
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