There is a danger that people could be tempted to throw away meaning altogether if information theory becomes a sort of universal explanation for everything. It would be a dull world if everything we know were reduced to strings of ones and zeroes, and the data in our heads were no different from the data in a machine. But as a private individual, Shannon was no wet blanket. Iin his comfortable semi-retirement, he took up all sorts of interesting pastimes, notably juggling. Legend has it that he could be seen from time to time juggling his way down the hall to his office, and he even wrote a mathematical analysis of juggling.
Some minds never rest, even at play.
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