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Information, information theory: A character or a character combination contains information when it is clear to the recipient that this character or the character combination appears instead of another possible character or a possible character combination. The supply of possible characters determines to a part the probability of the occurrence of a character from this supply. In addition, the expected probability of the appearance of a character can be increased by already experienced experiences of regularities. The amount of information transmitted by a character depends on the improbability of the occurrence of the character.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Jaron Lanier on Information - Dictionary of Arguments

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Information/Stewart Brand/Lanier: "Information wants to be free". That seems to be what Stewart Brand said first.
Information is something quite real through the connection the term has to entropy. This kind of information is independent of the culture of an observer. It is not the same kind of information we put into a computer.
Def Information/Lanier: is alienated experience. Culturally decodable information could be imagined as a potential experience.
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Information of the kind that supposedly wants to be free is only a shadow of our mind's activity and does not want anything at all.
>Entropy
, >Culture, >Experience, >Levels/order, >Description levels, >Thinking, >World/Thinking.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Lanier I
Jaron Lanier
You are not a Gadget. A Manifesto, New York 2010
German Edition:
Gadget: Warum die Zukunft uns noch braucht Frankfurt/M. 2012


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