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Comment author: drnickbone 26 September 2012 08:34:45PM 0 points [-]

I wasn't sure whether the calculations made between observations (the updating of probabilities) should count as "new information about the world" or not. From a strictly information theoretic point of view they don't (since the calculations are entailed by the observations so far, there's no reduction in Shannon entropy after making them). From a psychological point of view they do, since we learn as much - or more - from the updates as we do from the observations themselves.