Representation, Interpretation, and Theories of Information

Duwell, Armond J.; Lombardi, Olímpia; Fortín, Sebastián; Holik, Federico; López, Cristian

doi:10.1017/9781316494233.004

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“…Information is received at the destination when the message produced by the information source is reproduced at the destination in suitable form. What constitutes suitable form depends on the pragmatic interests associated with those who set up the communication system, as has been argued in Timpson (, , ) and Duwell (). In the case of standard email, the sequence of letters produced by Alice needs to be the sequence of letters that Bob sees on his screen.…”

Section: Shannon Information Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…That said, those that set up a quantum communication system might only be interested in preserving the local properties associated with the source, as described in Barnum, Caves, Fuchs, Jozsa, and Schumacher (1996). In fact, one might not be interested in preserving even local states, but groupings of states instead, as described in Duwell (2017).…”

Section: Quantum Information Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2 There is some controversy over what constitutes successful communication. See Timpson (2004Timpson ( , 2013 and Duwell (2008Duwell ( , 2017 for one view of the matter and Lombardi et al (2016) and Fortin and Lombardi (2017) for another. 3 Only noiseless quantum communication is considered in this paper.…”

Section: Related Topics Of Interestmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Information is received in a quantum communication system when the quantum message is reproduced at the destination in suitable form. What constitutes suitable form depends on the pragmatic interests associated with those who set up the communication system, as has been argued in Duwell (). The most comprehensive and specific criterion of success is the reproduction of the global quantum state of the message produced by the quantum information source.…”

Section: Quantum Information Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Information is received at the destination when the message produced by the information source is reproduced at the destination in suitable form. What constitutes suitable form depends on the pragmatic interests associated with those who set up the communication system, as has been argued in Timpson (2004Timpson ( , 2008Timpson ( , 2013 and Duwell (2017).…”

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What is quantum information?

Duwell

2019

Philosophy Compass

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Since the early 90s, philosophers and physicists have been asking the question, “What is quantum information?” In this paper, I will present Shannon and quantum information theories and a minimal interpretation of them which has come to be known as the deflationary view of information. I will present several criticisms that have been leveled at the deflationary view of quantum information and offer responses. This will provide the reader an up‐to‐date view of the debate over the nature of quantum information.

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Section: Shannon Information Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Quantum Information Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Topics Of Interestmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Quantum Information Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Information is received at the destination when the message produced by the information source is reproduced at the destination in suitable form. What constitutes suitable form depends on the pragmatic interests associated with those who set up the communication system, as has been argued in Timpson (2004Timpson ( , 2008Timpson ( , 2013 and Duwell (2017).…”

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