The retired Dr. Werner Gitt was the director and a professor in the Information Technology Division at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (PTB) in Braunschweig, Germany. Dr. Gitt has written numerous scientific papers in the fields of information science, mathematics, and control engineering. He is also a speaker and has authored several books.
Dr. Gitt and his wife, Marion, have been married since 1996 and have two adult children.
The concept of energy plays such a central role in all of physics.
Man’s natural language is the most comprehensive as well as the most differentiated means of expression.
Shannon’s definition of information entails only one minor aspect of the nature of information, as we will discuss at length.
The question about the origin of matter and the energies we observe in action is already answered in the first verse of the Bible.
Let us now examine how the Bible addresses the six measures for quantitatively evaluating information (especially its semantics) .
God is shown as the source or sender of biblical information.
According to biblical assertions all information given out by humans is evaluated by God.
The common factor present in all living organisms, from bacteria to man, is the information contained in all their cells.
A small selection of the frequently asked questions about information theory are now listed and answered briefly.
We can now begin to evaluate semantic information quantitatively, after having considered the essentials at the semantics level in the preceding chapters.
To rise above Shannon’s information theory, it is necessary to define measures for semantic information which must be generally valid.
If someone presents a model for explaining the origin of life, but he cannot say where the creative information characteristic of all life-forms came from, the crucial question remains unanswered.
Information accosts us from all sides and presents itself over a wide range of manifestations.
There is an extreme multiplicity of life-forms around us, and even a simple unicellular organism is much more complex and purposefully designed than anything that human inventiveness can produce.
Information always plays a substitutionary role. The encoding of reality is a mental process.
The question is whether these pictures represent information or not.
Many scientists therefore justly regard information as the third fundamental entity alongside matter and energy.
Through the natural sciences, the world around us is observed for the purpose of discovering the rules governing it.
What is the reason that such a system can function?
A rigorous analysis of the characteristics of information demonstrates that living things intrinsically reflect both the mind and will of their Creator.
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