Informavore
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informavore-183-17901281
title:
Informavore
text:
The term informavore characterizes an organism that consumes information. It is meant to be a description of human behavior in modern information society, in comparison to omnivore, as a description of humans consuming food. George A. Miller
coined the term in 1983 as an analogy to how organisms survive by consuming negative entropy. Miller states, "Just as the body survives by ingesting negative entropy, so the mind survives by ingesting information. In a very general sense, all higher organism
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Term used for an organism that consumes information
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informavore
date created:
2005-07-17T13:31:16Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T00:54:27Z
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