In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start? Hans Christian von Baeyer More Quotes by Hans Christian von Baeyer More Quotes From Hans Christian von Baeyer If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on the vertical, the relation between the two is represented by the logarithmic curve. Could this rule provide a clue to the relationship between the objective measure of information, and our subjective perception of it? Hans Christian von Baeyer axes curves two Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information. Hans Christian von Baeyer information pressure way For generations, field guides to plants and animals have sharpened the pleasure of seeing by opening our minds to understanding. Now John Adam has filled a gap in that venerable genre with his painstaking but simple mathematical descriptions of familiar, mundane physical phenomena. This is nothing less than a mathematical field guide to inanimate nature. Hans Christian von Baeyer understanding simple animal
