REDUNDANCY (Spreading of)
Charles François (2004). REDUNDANCY (Spreading of), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(2): 2777.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2777 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
G. BATESON states that redundancy is not only something perceived and helpful to the receiver of a message.
- “In a wider universe, i.e., that defined by the point of view of the observer, this no longer appears as a 'transmission' of information but rather as a spreading of redundancy… The activities of A (the sender) and B (the receiver) have combined to make the universe of the observer more predictable, more ordered and more redundant” (1973, p. 383).
There is however again a condition: The observer must know A and B's codes.