The difference that makes...

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So information, while a critical part of learning, is only one among many forces at work.	Information theory portrays information as a change registered  in an otherwise steady state. It's a light flashing out on a dark hillside (to borrow an example from the philosopher Fred Dretske) or the splash of a pebble breaking the calm of a still lake.
In either case, the result, as the anthropologist Gregory Bateson puts it neatly, is ...	"a difference that makes a difference." p.138.

Seely Brown, J., & Duguid, P. (2000). The Social Life of Information. Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Press, 138.