Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.

  • -- Claude Shannon 香农

信息:概率的负倒数。

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It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything.

如果我们能知道足够多的东西来回答宇宙的所有问题,那就太奇怪了。这不是很奇怪吗?虽然有很高的可能性是存在着一个我们无法感知的巨大现实,但这实际上正在向我们施加压力,影响着一切。

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

如果科学推理局限于算术的逻辑过程,我们对物理世界的理解就不会走得太远。人们不妨尝试完全利用概率数学来把握扑克游戏。

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

只有通过连续切片对大脑进行组织学检查,才能获得关于大脑深部切片功能意义的确切信息。

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

为什么人们会做他们害怕的事情?也许恐惧包含着信息。如果你克服了恐惧,事情就会变得有趣起来。