information Information I'm writing a book on What Information Wants. But nailing down a definition of information is hard. What is information? Let's look at the Wikipedia definition. That should be helpful, right? (Right?!?) 1.
big history Three Alphabets, Three Trees The universe's complexity can be understood by three trees: the tree of molecules, the tree of life, and the tree of ideas. These trees are created by three building block alphabets: elements, genes,