Archive for January 10th, 2015
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Mother discipline? Like INFORMATION THEORY? and What Nassim Nicholas Taleb has to say
Posted on: January 10, 2015
Mother discipline? Like INFORMATION THEORY? and What Nassim Nicholas Taleb has to say?
![INFORMATION THEORY is the Mother discipline, replacing what used to be called "Natural Philosophy" which became general science. This graph was from 20y ago in the seminal book Cover and Thomas, as the field was starting to be defined. Now Information Theory has been expanded to swallow even more fields.<br />
Born in, of all disciplines, Electrical Engineering, the field has progressively infiltrating probability theory, computer science, statistical physics, data science, gambling theory, ruin problems, complexity, even how one deals with knowledge, epistemology. It defines noise/signal, order/disorder, etc. It studies cellular automata. You can use it in theology (FREE WILL & algorithmic complexity). As I said, it is the MOTHER discipline.<br />
I am certain much of Medicine will naturally grow to be a subset of it, both operationally, and in studying how the human body works: the latter is an information machine. Same with linguistics. Same with political "science", same with... everything.<br />
I am saying this because I figured out what the long 5th volume of the INCERTO will be. Cannot say now with any precision but it has to do with a variant of entropy as the core natural generator of Antifragility.<br />
[Revised to explain that it is not replacing other disciplines, just replacing segments of them...]](https://scontent-b-mad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/s526x395/10614283_10152488919783375_3463647308090703086_n.jpg?oh=f953fbe8d04fee261cf8da531356c203&oe=54D063B0)
INFORMATION THEORY is the Mother discipline, replacing what used to be called “Natural Philosophy” which became general science.
This graph was from 20 years ago in the seminal book Cover and Thomas, as the field was starting to be defined. Now Information Theory has been expanded to swallow even more fields.
Born in, of all disciplines, Electrical Engineering, the field has progressively infiltrating probability theory, computer science, statistical physics, data science, gambling theory, ruin problems, complexity, even how one deals with knowledge, epistemology.
It defines noise/signal, order/disorder, etc. It studies cellular automata.
You can use it in theology (FREE WILL & algorithmic complexity).
As I said, it is the MOTHER discipline.
I am certain much of Medicine will naturally grow to be a subset of it, both operationally, and in studying how the human body works: the latter is an information machine.
Same with linguistics.
Same with political “science”, same with… everything.
I am saying this because I figured out what the long 5th volume of the INCERTO will be.
Cannot say now with any precision but it has to do with a variant of entropy as the core natural generator of Antifragility.
[Revised to explain that it is not replacing other disciplines, just replacing segments of them…]
