information theory
Noun
Meaning
(computer science) a statistical theory dealing with the limits and efficiency of information processing
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If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.
In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.
The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.
Without an understanding of causality there can be no theory of communication. What passes as information theory today is not communication at all, but merely transportation.
Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.
The real core of communication is what information theory's founder, Claude Shannon calls "meaning." And meaning is not covered in information theory.