Ch 8: The Informational Turn

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Comment on "Information is surprise." [p. 247]

For Weiner, entropy was a measure of disorder; for Shannon, of uncertainty.

Von Foerster felt uncomfortable with the notion of information without meaning. [p. 248]

Can machines think?  What is the Turning test?

All digital computers are in a sense equivalent.

"'Recoding'...seems to be the very lifeblood of the thought process." [p. 261]

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