A certain message is information packed or not very informative at all. Certain sentences are surprising, they therefore convey a lot of information. The same exact text might have no information content from the perspective of a certain observer and a lot of info in another view. There are ways that we all, as human beings, look at the world, and we coarse grain it in the same way.
Welcome to the May 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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