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Hans Christian von Baeyer


Chancellor Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary.
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Hans Christian von Baeyer
The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.
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Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the word 'information' itself, nor even addressing the question of the meaning of the message.
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As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.




The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.
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