On 1/26/2012 3:32 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
Ok, so how does it effect the entropy of the structures? The red house, the white house, and the mixed house (even if an interesting pattern is made in the bricks), all behave in a physically identical way, do they not?
No they don't. They reflect photons differently; which is why you could use the pattern to send a message.
There seems to be a lot of confusion about information as defined by Shannon. Shannon's information is relative to the uncertainty in a message. So it depends on how you define the possible messages. If different patterns of red and white legos constitute the possible messages, then you can measure the information capacity of this message system by Shannon's formula. It's *not* the measure of some particular message - it's the measure of the *capacity* of the message system.
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