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		MrMcCall on Dec 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live a... You said both `nothing to do with digital logic in this context` and `compressed down to about 10 bits per second` Sounds like digital compression from where I sit, friend. Are you using an information theory that is based upon something different from Shannon's?

VyseofArcadia on Dec 18, 2024 [–]

"Compression" here is nontechnical, and I was using it by analogy as an aid to intuition. I didn't want to throw out the E word (entropy) unnecessarily.

MrMcCall on Dec 18, 2024 | [–]

Are you using "bit" in a sense different to Wikipedia's definition, as linked from Claude Shannon's page?

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