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information
1. Basic definition
Information is the symbol of matter, energy, information and its attributes. [2006, Medical Information (Journal)].
Information is an increase of certainty.
Information is a collection of phenomena of things and their attribute marks.
Information takes material media as the carrier, transmitting and reflecting the appearance of the existence, movement and behavior of all kinds of things in the world.
Information is the sum of the laws of material movement, and information is neither material nor energy!
Information is a universal form of the state and motion characteristics of objective things, and a large amount of information expressed in these ways exists, produces and transmits in the objective world.
2. Classic definition:
1948, Shannon, an American mathematician and founder of information theory, pointed out in his paper entitled Mathematical Theory of Communication that "information is used to eliminate random uncertainty".
1948 Weiner, a famous American mathematician and founder of cybernetics, pointed out in his book Cybernetics: "Information is information, neither matter nor energy."
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