Quotes About Shannon's theory

Although DNA does not convey information that is received, understood, or used by a conscious mind, it does have information that is received and used by the cell's machinery to build the structures critical to the maintenance of life. DNA displays a property—functional specificity—that transcends the merely mathematical formalism of Shannon's theory. Is

Claude E. Shannon, who first enunciated the theory, "was able to define channel capacity for continuous signals such as music and speech.