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For the vast bulk of messages, in fact, symbols do not behave like fair coins. The symbol that is sent now depends, in important and predictable ways, on the symbol that was just sent: one symbol has a “pull” on the next. Take an image: Hartley showed how to measure its information content by gauging the intensity of each “elementary area.” But in images that resemble anything other than TV static, intensities are not splattered randomly across the pixels: each pixel has pull. A light pixel is more likely to appear next to a light pixel, a dark next to a dark.
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman
Not if it was done by way of prescription. If a desire for the Truth is in someone’s bones, then he will not stop until he finds it. Not because he should. But because he has no choice.
Direct Truth - Uncompromising, Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life
Kapil Gupta
There is knowledge of the present only when there is a complete understanding of what the structure and the nature of the past is—and ending it.
Total Freedom_ the Essential Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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