[Sigia-l] various definitions of "information"

[Eric Scheid]

I'm looking for soundbyte definitions of "information"

Someone (who?) said "information is the difference that makes a difference",
while Richard Saul Wurman says "it informs". Meanwhile, less qualitively,
from a brief reading of Shannon's groundbreaking work, it appears Shannon's
definition is closer to what most people think of being data.

What are some other definitions?

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