If you have a block of stone and cut it in two pieces, the position and angle of the cut is information. By carving down a pool of information, you add information to it.
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Yes, the position and angle of the cut is information, but there are an infinite, or at least very large number of possible cuts. That's what I mean by the possibility space. By carving it, you collapse the information from lots of possible states to one real state, thus pruning the possibilities to get one reality.
Except, ideally, a PhD thesis. Which should contain a completely new piece of information for the world.
A good portion of any paper is citing references
Well no. It's still just a list of text, so that text as well as all other text with minor and major variations exists in the information space. As I said, the hard part is getting rid of all the wrong stuff.
Information has a mathematical definition, if you're interested in that sort of thing.
I'm interested but I'm not sure I have the brain cells for this right now.
Thanks!
i think spongebob covered this well in his attempt to teach squidward how to sculpt
Ah, I haven't watched The Simpsons.
my fav bit is when the baby screams 'not the momma'. you should totally check it out.