the information digestive system
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The presentation finds analogy between food digestion and information digestion. The presentation makes recommendations on the need to intake balanced information diets and the need to control the rate of information digestionTRANSCRIPT
The Information Digestive System
By: Ali Anani
Information Intake Waste Information
The Basic Idea
Does food digestion serve as a metaphor for information digestion?
Let us try to answer this question and draw some useful conclusions
The Journey of Food DigestionDigestion aims at
breaking food intake into small parts so that the
body may process the partsMost of the
digestive organs are tube like to contain the food
The body must get rid of food waste
The Journey of Information Digestion
Digestion aims at breaking information
intake into small parts so that the body may
process the partsShould most of the information digestive
organs are tube like to contain the
information?
The body must get rid of information waste
A Brief Look at the Food Digestion Process
The Mouth
• Partly breaking the food by chewing and by the salivary
• Complex molecules break into smaller molecules
Esophagus
• This is a long tube that runs from the mouth to the stomach
• This tube uses a wave-like movement to force food into the stomach
Stomach• It is a sack-like organ • Bathes the food in strong acid
to partly digest it
A Brief Look at the Food Digestion Process- 2
Small Intestine •Here the food has a 3-step journey•Enzymatic digestion helps in further breakdown of the food
Large Intestine •Removal of unwanted components•The food travels for its end goal
The End •Solid food is stored•The body gets rid of waste at a later time
The Derived Lesson
Digestion is a multi-stage process
•Food is broken down in several consequential steps
Inequality •Not all food components are equal
Waste •The body must get rid of digestion waste
Is Digestion of Information any Different?
Digestion is a multi-stage process
• Digestion of information is a multi-step process
Inequality
• Not all components of information are digested equally
Waste
• We need a system to get us rid of information waste
Constituents of Food and of Information
Food Constituents Information Constituents
Fats Fat information
Vitamins Small amounts, but critical to health
Sugar Amusing and fun information
Carbohydrates Complex information
Salt Salty information in small amounts; else cause high pressure
Minerals To keep the body healthy
Proteins For information body-building
The Intake of Comments (Information Intake)
Comments are different. Some are fatty; others are light.Some comments are salty; others are sweetSome comment evaporate quickly; others stay long enough to be digested and metabolized
The Digestion Path of Comments- A Continuous Intake Process
The Digestion Path of Comments- The Spiral Path (Replica of the Previous Slide)
Information Fast Intake Invites for Problems The spiral growth of information
intake has its problems The problems are analogous to
problems associated with fast eating
Information Fast Intake Invites for Problems
Fast Eating Problems Fast Information Intake Problems
Eating fast make you eat more than you need
Fast information intake might turn the flow of information into a chaotic one
Incomplete digestion of food Inability to digest information into knowledge
Sense of food enjoyment decreases by fast eating
Sense of value of information is partly lost if information is swallowed fast
Fast eating may cause health problems by not going properly through the digestion process
Incomplete information digestion might have harmful side effects
Conclusions Information digestion is a multi-stage process.
As food digestion is a multi-phase process; so is the information digestion
The body digests food constituents differently.; information digestion might call similar treatments
Fast food intake is harmful; so is the intake of information
We need balanced food; we also need balanced information intake by not taking the same information “dish” daily
The longest part of the digestive system is tube-like; the path of information is spiral-like