December 17, 2008
- Concept -
A calorie-type rating for information, based on its personal usefulness or significance, and how much energy (motivation) we get from consuming that information. Possible to have different ratings depending on the subjective situation in which the information is received.
Also, low quality information that makes us feel good but doesn’t give us much energy, would be comparable to the McDonalds of brainfood. We have a lot of this kind of information flowing around us now, in a ‘as-below-so-above’ type of interaction between the noosphere and the biosphere.
A name is needed, I think, for what is being measured (not the unit of measurement, but the thing being measured by that unit). Info-energy? Moti-mation? Insfiration?
As for the unit of measurement, I propose the reclus… =)
