信息有多基础？
原文标题：How fundamental is information? 作者：Oleg Kiselyov 原文链接：Doubts about the concept of information 本文是一篇批判性文章，探讨了信息概念的定义和基础。这篇文章的灵感源自 David Berlinski 的《What Brings a World into Being?》 [Berlinski]。 Berlinski 文章的主旨正是告诫人们不要以信息中心的视角来看待世界。正如文章所说，「把信息视为万事万物的本质」已经成为了一种流行的观点： The thesis that the human mind is nothing more than an information-processing device is now widely regarded as a fact. ‘Viewed at the most abstract level,’ the science writer George Johnson remarked recently in the New York Times, ‘both brains and computers operate the same way by translating phenomena – sounds, images, and so forth – into a code that can be stored and manipulated’ ....