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Stanford Professor Explores Information and Meaning in New Book

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Thomas S. Mullaney, a Stanford History Professor, explores the concept of "information" and its role in preserving meaning in his book "How We Disappear." Drawing parallels to Claude Shannon's information theory, Mullaney posits that life is an ongoing effort to maintain meaning against the universe's natural tendency toward disorder. The book delves into how individuals and societies create and preserve information, suggesting that failure to maintain this information leads to a form of disappearance. AI

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Stanford Professor Explores Information and Meaning in New Book

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  1. Forbes — Innovation TIER_1 English(EN) · Thomas Coughlin, Contributor ·

    The Storage Of Meaning And How We Disappear

    It is important to remember where we came from, what we did, and why we matter, and if we don’t do this, we will all disappear.

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