Poll: If information is yin what is the most natural and interesting yang to it?
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yin/yang - opposites that rely on each other for their grounding and being - so intelligence is the answer
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Within a physics/information theory context, there's a clear right answer, which is ignorance.
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Would that be in observer terms or something like high symmetry state of a signal?
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It's more basic than that. Entropy can be cast precisely as a measure of ignorance: more ignorance of the system means a higher entropy system. Granting information about the system (and thereby constraining its possible states) leads to a reduction in entropy.
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Ie whom does “granting more information” refer to? Are we constraining the state of a system or the state of an observer’s knowledge of a system? When I notice a pattern in a system, it’s *my* information state that is lowered in entropy, system constrainedness has not changed


