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According to the structure of the underlying language of which a message is a particular expression, some messages are more ‘meaningful’ than others, that is, are in accord with the grammar and syntax of the language. The Shannon-McMillan or Asymptotic Equipartition Theorem, describes how messages themselves are to be classified.
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Wallace, R., Fullilove, M.T. (2008). Mathematical appendix. In: Collective Consciousness and its Discontents. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76765-9_8
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