What is Radical Intellectual Activity? "the unpredictability of a message"? eureka!

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The very spirit of imagination demands the redefinition of intelligence, if
only to begin thinking like twentieth century brains, instead of eighteenth
or nineteenth century ones. Intelligence thrives on information. Before the
twentieth century the most widely accepted and scientific definition of
"information" was the common-sense process of accumulating known data;
knowledge was inert, predictable, and easily categorized. The universe, or
so it was thought, could be mapped out in surgical precision like some deux
machina that followed understandable laws. How many of us still think this way ?

At the turn of the twentieth century, Einstein, Heisenberg, and
Schroedinger, amongst others, turned the world of intelligence on its ear;
the world, according to the new physics and quantum mechanics, is infinitely
more mysterious and strange than ever previously imagined.   One outcome of
this important update was the redefinition of what constituted
"information." In light of living in a universe of greater uncertainties,
information was redefined as "the unpredictability of a message". This
means, the more unpredictable the message, the more information there is in
it. At this point, author William Burroughs' axiom from _NAKED LUNCH_
"Nothing is true; everything is permitted" might've made terrible sense to
the cutting edge scientific community.


~ Antero Alli


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Media Censorship That Dare Not Speak Its Name:
What is Radical Intellectual Activity?
By James F. Tracy
Global Research, November 05, 2013
http://www.globalresearch.ca/media-censorship-that-dare-not-speak-its-name-what-is-radical-intellectual-activity/5356848

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