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Information is a difference that makes a difference.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

Gregory Bateson
Differences, Making A Difference, Information
1984 Quoted in Scientific American, no.41, Sep.

Information consists of differences that make a difference.

Gregory Bateson
Differences, Making A Difference, Information

What we mean by information - the elementary unit of information - is a difference which makes a difference, and it is able to make a difference because the neural pathways along which it travels and is continually transformed are themselves provided with energy. The pathways are ready to be triggered. We may even say that the question is already implicit in them.

Gregory Bateson
Mean, Differences, Making A Difference
"Steps to an Ecology of Mind". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1972.

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