Day: July 23, 2018

“Famously, the word ‘entropy’ was suggested by von Neumann to Shannon to name the value of information embedded in a message. Simondon knew about these thermodynamic beginnings. In the MTC approach, he tells us, ‘information theory is the starting point of a body of research that founded the concept of negative entropy (or negentropy), showing that information corresponds to an inverse process of degradation and that, within the entire pattern, information is not definable in terms of the source, or the receiver, but from the relationship between source and receiver.”