Jane Austen s concept of information
(Not Claude Shannon s)
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Shannon
vs Austen
Many scientists and engineers, including, surprisingly, some psychologists and
neuroscientists, seem to think that what the word information and its
equivalents in other languages refer to is what Claude Shannon s ground-breaking
1948 paper referred to as information : a measurable property of signals that
can be stored, transmitted, compared, compressed, decompressed, corrupted,
repaired, encrypted, decrypted, etc. (Shannon, 1948).
Many of Shannon s admirers seem to have forgotten that there is a much older,