15-08-2013, 06:17 PM
Steve Minnerly Wrote:Shannons work on information theory says that "information content is inversely proportional to probability".
In other words rare events contain more information than common events.
The JFK assassination is a very rare event so it should contain a LOT of information and I'd say that anybody thats looked into it can see thats true.
{sigh}
In the world of that time, with the cast of characters we KNOW were involved... this was not so rare an event - the killing of a person of importance standing in the way of our fight against Communism (and the expansion of the desires of the USA to control the drug, oil and weapons industries of the world).
When one strips away the moutain of BS info related to the investigation and that left by the conspirators to bog us down for years... It was really a quite simple thing, with a quite simple plan.
There was a conspiracy... 100% probability... so that in turn would mean next to no information related to that conspiracy SHOULD be found.. inverse proportion to 100% is 0% isn't it?
The RARE part of the event is the Lone Nut part.. next to 0% probability for THAT with TONS of info content (per Salandria)
Guess we have to define the EVENT we are referring to..
DJ
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter