Video/How Information Helps Us Understand The Fabric Of Reality
Al-Khalili, Jim (Nov 5, 2019). How Information Helps Us Understand The Fabric Of Reality. local page: Spark.
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Information is Orthogonal to Physical Reality
In the beginning of the video, Al-Khalili articulated the fact that language, especially phonetically-spelled written language, used the sound of pictures to represent concepts, therefore, creating an orthogonal approach to decouple the representation of information away from the physical manifestation of information carrier. This decoupled treatment as a protocol to information representation, allowed for the freedom to choose arbitrary physical manifestation of the information to be presented, therefore, making data and information, to be represetable in arbitrary physical medium, making data representation physically scale-free.
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