Aging is characterized by the loss of information over time due to noise in analog systems.

“I actually ended up boiling aging down to an equation, which is the loss of information due to entropy.”

“Shannon’s research was intended to improve the robustness of electronic and radio communications between two points. But he discovered about preserving and restoring information can be applied to aging.”

“But how do you get back that information? So I'm going to geek out a little bit because your audience is a smart one. So back in 1938, there was a man, a brilliant person called Claude Shannon who was at MIT and he wrote a theory, mathematical theory on communication. And his goal was to correct the loss of noise during a transmission of a radio signal during World War II and beyond. And he came up with a mathematical theorem of how do you make sure that the signal that starts here is pristine when it gets to the actual receiver? And what he decided was you can either make it digital or you can have somebody who's observing the signal and then if it gets messed up, you then send a replacement signal. We now call that TCP/IP. It runs the internet. That's how it all works. That's why it works. And we wouldn't have an internet if it wasn't for Claude Shannon's work back in the '30s and '40s. I think that's a good recipe for understanding why we age, loss of noise over time, analog systems, very prone to noise.”