While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
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When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.
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Randomness works well in search—sometimes better than humans.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.
Stephen Jay Gould
This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing ...
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The theory of communication is partly concerned with the measurement of information content of signals, as their essential property in the establishment of communication links. But the information content of signals is not to be regarded as a commodity; it is more a property or potential of the signals, and as a concept it is closely related to the idea of selection, or discrimination. This mathematical theory first arose in telegraphy and telephony, being developed for the purpose of measuring the information content of telecommunication signals. It concerned only the signals themselves as transmitted along wires, or broadcast through the aether, and is quite abstracted from all questions of "meaning." Nor does it concern the importance, the value, or truth to any particular person. As a theory, it lies at the syntactic level of sign theory and is abstracted from the semantic and pragmatic levels. We shall argue ... that, though the theory does not directly involve biological elements, it is nevertheless quite basic to the study of human communication -- basic but insufficient.
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