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Thoughtus Confoundus

High security zone for hazardous thoughts. Think many many times before reading. If you're lucky you'll get away with thinking its plain crap. The author accepts no responsibility for induced insanity. 

Friday, July 16, 2004

Information Theory - Man Have we SCREWED UP!

Information Theory is seriously flawed! or at least severely limited. Any sound theory has to build on basics ,axioms, fundamentals - the real unexplainable. Any theory that is built on anything but the most primitive of axioms runs the risk of being limited. An example to illustrate the point, with apologies to Sir Isaac Newton & Albert Einstein. Newton assumed that 'time' was a very special quantity - an absolute whereas other fundamental measurements such as length and velocity were relative. Some time later Einstein comes along and questions the 'absoluteness' of time. He assumes that there is nothing at all very special about time - it's just the reading you get from a clock. There is no such thing as time flowing from the past & into the future. From this simple but 'fundamental' axiom comes the Theory of Special Relativity, which has superseded Newtonian mechanics.

I believe that we are taking obviously non-fundamental axioms to be the basis of information theory. This is a bit of a tongue in cheek statement because I have absolutely no knowledge of Information Theory - but what the heck eh? Why should I let a minor issue like that stop me?

As I understand it, contemporary Information Theory builds on the representation of binary or character data. BUT, methinks data representation takes a much more fundamental form.
Isn't the most basic representation of data, the strength and direction of an electric field? The physical manifestation of data in the human brain would be in the form of synaptic configurations characterized by the strength and direction of an E-M Field. Even the storage of binarised data in modern computers is at its most basic level characterized by the strength and direction of an E-M Field.

SO the conclusion: Any Theory on Information has to be based on Electro Magnetic Theory - Not on pure statistical quantization!

Note to self - Investigate Information Theory.
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