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