Information Sonnet*
for Claude E.
Shannon
1.
p log p=
0
2. "If you can
control information you can control people."
3. “*$$<
;<:^=]-{-#* <$^{ #$] _\{] 5-=5\!;]^ -#&$=@;]-$#, -]
%^#^]=;]^{ ](^ %\3!-5 @-#< 6-](
<^{-=^{
;#< 3^!-^&{.”**
4.
You are dissatisfied with objective reality but are not opposed to
the status quo.
5. Identity is
heterogeneous and complex.
6. Entomologists
catch red flies for the museum in Chad where scientists study fossils
fixed in amber—xanthous as toxic foam.
7.
I(X;
Y)=
H(X)
– H(X|Y)
8. Her bruise is
the color of the space between your toe and your red sock.
9. "Information is
only useful when it can be understood."
10. Everything
depends on red socks.
11. If you were an
Afrobot I couldn't take you home.
12.
Transmitter--(x)-->
(noisy) Channel--(y)-->
Receiver
13. It is easier
to turn genes on than to turn genes off.
14.
W= K
log m
*First published in the online journal, Otoliths [AU], 2018
**“Good
advertising does not just circulate information, it penetrates the
public mind with desires and beliefs.”
