Throughout, we shall be exemplifying the thesis of D. M. MacKay: that quantity of information, as measured here, always corresponds to some quantity, i. e. intensity, of selection, either actual or imaginable. (W. Ross Ashby)

Throughout, we shall be exemplifying the thesis of D. M. MacKay: that quantity of information, as measured here, always corresponds to some quantity, i. e. intensity, of selection, either actual or imaginable.

W. Ross Ashby

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