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What is information? The everyday meaning of the word is clear: It is what is communicated. We obtain it using every sense organ. We transmit it to others. Our personal life and the functioning of society are based on communication, on the receipt and transmission of information—and this applies not only to human beings, but to all denizens of the biosphere.
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We understand, even though half-heard, Of questions, answers every word. But if those half-heard words are new, They’re irredundant through and through.
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Volkenstein, M.V. (2009). Information. In: Entropy and Information. Progress in Mathematical Physics, vol 57. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0078-1_7
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