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Episode #187 – The Shannon Trap

Episode #187 – The Shannon Trap

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In 1948 Claude Shannon formalised information theory by excluding meaning from the math, a move that was correct for his engineering problem and costly once the field adopted his measure as the definition of information itself. This episode walks through the inversion and the proposed repair: K = Ic².
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