Day 32: Carl Jung’s tadpole

Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.– Carl Jung; Memories, dreams, reflections

So, What is Information?

It is what remains after every iota of natural redundancy has been squeezed out of a message, and after every aimless syllable of noise has been removed. It is the unfettered essence that passes from computer to computer, from satellite to Earth, from eye to brain, and (over many generations of natural selection) from the

Information is physical

Information is associated with uncertainty. Higher the uncertainty of a system, greater the information content. It is an essence of any physical system. All physical systems can be thought of as information processing. According to second law of thermodynamics, entropy of a closed system increases until it reaches the maximum value. Entropy is the measure