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A Mathematical Theory of Communication

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The founding paper of information theory: information measured as the reduction of uncertainty, entirely independent of meaning.

The instructive contrast. Shannon deliberately excluded meaning; Bateson deliberately re-introduced it. Reading the two together shows exactly what "information" is doing in each sentence of this corpus.
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whyPure structure, meaning set aside — form measured on its own terms.
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information theory · entropy · bit
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