Re: MD Quality and information theory

From: oisin@o-connell.net
Date: Sat Dec 29 2001 - 23:42:13 GMT


Information is the raw material of knowledge; Knowledge is the manufactured
end-product of the Intellectual process...

Too much information can be a kind of pollution. Knowledge is the fittest
information which survives... or is harvested...

on 12/29/01 2:58 AM, Lawrence de Bivort at debivort@umd5.umd.edu wrote:

> "Information is the difference that makes the difference."
> - Gregory Bateson
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> ROSS:
> Meantime, anyone got any suggestions for a definition of information?
>
> ROG:
> I have been wrestling with this one for a month or two now, and can't settle
> on anything that does it service. Kinda like Quality, huh?

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