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BIG QUESTION. “How much information does it take to describe a whole universe? Could that description fit in a computer's memory? Could we, as William Blake memorably penned, see a world in a grain of sand, or is that idea no more than poetic license?” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

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ORGANISMS AS AGENTS NOT OBJECTS. “Natural selection is not a consequence of how well the organism solves a set of fixed problems posed by the environment; on the contrary, the environment and the organisms actively co-determine each other.” (Lewontin 1978, in article by Denis M Walsh) https://lnkd.in/dchkheh View in LinkedIn

VAST IMPACT. “For instance, the design of every modern communications device--from cellular phones to modems to compact-disc players--relies on Shannon entropy.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

FROM IT TO BIT. “The Shannon entropy of a message is the number of binary digits, or bits, needed to encode it. Shannon entropy does not enlighten us about the value of information, which is highly dependent on context. Yet as an objective measure of quantity of information, it has been enormously useful in science and technology.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

CONVERGENT IDEAS. “When Shannon cast about for a way to quantify the information contained in, say, a message, he was led by logic to a formula with the same form as Boltzmann's.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

ENTROPY STATES. “In 1877 Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann characterized it more precisely in terms of the number of distinct microscopic states that the particles composing a chunk of matter could be in while still looking like the same macroscopic chunk of matter.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

THE KEY. “What are the ultimate degrees of freedom? Atoms, after all, are made of electrons and nuclei, nuclei are agglomerations of protons and neutrons, and those in turn are composed of quarks.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

LIMITS OF TINY. “As miniaturization brings closer the day when each atom will store one bit of information for us, the useful Shannon entropy of the state-of-the-art microchip will edge closer in magnitude to its material's thermodynamic entropy. When the two entropies are calculated for the same degrees of freedom, they are equal.” https://lnkd.in/draqjTW View in LinkedIn

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