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What is“information”? Perhaps this seems like an inappropriate question, considering that the Information Theory of Claude Shannon has existed for more than four decades. In his theory, information is definitely a technical“something” that has led to great quantities of published work, and to some real-world applications.
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Holt, A.W. (1997). Information (Theory). In: Organized Activity and its Support by Computer. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5590-8_8
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