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needle telegraphy,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.4
,
5.5
,
5.6

networks

applications of Shannon’s theories,
8.1
,
8.2

barbed-wire telephone

biological analogies for electrical

cloud processing

clustering in

collective judgment and behavior enabled by,
epl.1
,
epl.2

e-mail

emergence of global consciousness,
epl.1
,
epl.2
,
epl.3

English poetry

global information in,
epl.1
,
epl.2

science of

small-world,
epl.1
,
epl.2

spread of memes through

telegraphic,
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
5.1

telephone,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4

see also
cyberspace; Internet

Neugebauer, Otto

neurophysiology

analog
versus
digital descriptions of,
8.1
,
8.2

concept of human global organism,
epl.1
,
epl.2
,
epl.3

feedback systems in,
8.1
,
8.2

human–computer comparison,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3

metaphors for electrical systems

neurosis

New Logic,
6.1
,
6.2

Newman, James R.

Newton, Isaac,
prl.1
,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
4.1
,
6.1
,
9.1
,
11.1
,
12.1
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3

noise

in biological systems

coded messages as,
7.1
,
7.2

error correction to overcome,
7.1
,
7.2
,
8.1

limits of information transmission,
8.1
,
8.2

in modeling of communication systems,
6.1
,
7.1

noisy coding theorem

predictability

problems of telephony,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
7.1

quantification of

scientific study of,
6.1
,
6.2

source of,
6.1
,
7.1

as subject of psychology research,
8.1
,
8.2

Wiener’s studies of,
8.1
,
8.2

Nollet, Abbé Jean-Antoine

noosphere

Notions sur la machine analytique
(Menabrea)

nucleic acid,
10.1
,
10.2
;
see also
deoxyribonucleic acid,
10.1

nucleotides,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4

numbers

computability question,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
7.4
,
7.5
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4
,
12.5

concept of normality in,
12.1
,
12.2

earliest written,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

information in,
12.1
,
12.2

interesting,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4

meaning of

printed tables of,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4

products of Babbage’s work with,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

table of differences,
4.1
,
4.2

as universal language,
6.1
,
6.2

see also
mathematics

Nyquist, Harry,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4
,
7.1

observer effects on subject of observation,
7.1
,
13.1
,
13.2
,
13.3
,
13.4
,
13.5

Occam’s razor

Odyssey
(Homer),
2.1
,
11.1

Ogilvie, Brian,
14.1
,
15.1

Ohm, Georg

Ong, Walter J.,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5

oral culture(s),
1.1
,
1.2
,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
2.6
,
2.7
,
2.8
,
2.9

Oxford English Dictionary,
3.1
,
9.1
,
14.1
,
15.1
,
15.2

additions and revisions to,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
3.6

editions of

goals of,
3.1
,
3.2

growth of language and,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

online,
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

sources of words and definitions for

spelling of words in,
3.1
,
3.2

Page, Larry,
14.1
,
epl.1

Palme, Jacob,
15.1
,
15.2

Palmer, Dexter,
epl.1
,
epl.2

paper,
2.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
7.1
,
9.1
,
13.1
,
14.1
,
14.2
,
14.3
,
15.1
,
15.2

paradox(es)

Barber

Berry’s,
6.1
,
6.2
,
12.1

challenges for symbolic logic,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

of distance in cyberspace

Epimenides’

Gödel’s insight into,
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3
,
6.4

of language and logic,
2.1
,
2.2
,
4.1

liar’s

mathematics as solution to

of perpetual motion,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

Russell’s,
6.1
,
6.2

self-referencing as basis of,
6.1
,
6.2

of smallest uninteresting number,
12.1
,
12.2

parallel processing,
4.1
,
4.2

Parker, Moses Greeley

Parry, Milman

Pascal, Blaise

patterns

distinguished from randomness,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3
,
12.4

recognition of, in cryptography,
7.1
,
7.2

in valuation of messages,
12.1
,
12.2

in
Voyager
spacecraft messages,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

Pauli, Wolfgang

Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich

Peacock, George

Peel, Robert,
4.1
,
4.2

Peres, Asher,
13.1
,
13.2

Perks, William George

perpetual motion machines,
9.1
,
9.2
,
9.3

perturbation studies

petroglyphs

pharmaceutical industry,
14.1
,
14.2

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
(Newton),
4.1
,
6.1
,
14.1

Philosophy of Decyphering, The
(Babbage)

phonemes,
1.1
,
1.2
,
8.1

photographic images,
12.1
,
14.1
,
14.2

physics,
prl.1
,
prl.2
,
prl.3
,
prl.4
,
prl.5
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
13.1
,
13.2
;
see also
quantum physics; thermodynamics

pi,
12.1
,
12.2
,
12.3

Pickering, John

pictographs

Pierce, John Robinson,
prl.1
,
8.1

Pinker, Steven,
3.1
,
3.2

planimeter

Plato,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
2.6

Pliny,
2.1
,
6.1

Pluto,
3.1
,
3.2

PM (formal system),
6.1
,
6.2
,
6.3

Pocket Telegraphic Code,
5.1

Podolsky, Boris

Poe, Edgar Allan,
prl.1
,
4.1
,
5.1
,
6.1
,
7.1
,
14.1

poetry,
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
12.1
,
12.2
,
15.1
,
15.2
,
15.3

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