{"id":1238,"date":"2008-08-25T17:07:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T16:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2008-08-25T17:07:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T16:07:51","slug":"information-and-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/08\/information-and-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Information and understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">T<\/span>his is my favourite quote from one of the books I&#8217;ve been reading over the vacation, <strong>Hans Christian von Baeyer<\/strong>&#8216;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Information-Hans-Christian-von-Baeyer\/dp\/0674018575\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1219680358&amp;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\">Information: The New Language of Science<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why does nature seem granular, discontinuous, quantized into discrete chunks like sand &#8211; instead of smooth and continuous like water?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is that while we have no idea how the world is really arranged, and shouldn&#8217;t even ask, we do know that knowledge of the world is information; and since information is naturally quantized into bits, the world also appears quantized.<\/p>\n<p>If it didn&#8217;t, we wouldn&#8217;t be able to understand it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my favourite quote from one of the books I&#8217;ve been reading over the vacation, Hans Christian von Baeyer&#8216;s Information: The New Language of Science: Why does nature seem granular, discontinuous, quantized into discrete chunks like sand &#8211; instead of smooth and continuous like water? The answer is that while we have no idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}