In one of my books (www.metafire.com online) the motto is "Worry is a Waste of Imagination" which was a boarded up motel sign on US 101 just south of San Francisco in the early 90s. While most of this article is dead on, this particularly is dead off.
Our brains, even animal ones, create information out of nothing where, in fact, information may not exist except in a potential form (but certainly not ever used). This is what computational cognitive neuroscience teaches us particularly through the study of mendaciology...the computational cognitive neuroscience of lies.
Information can be created, even out of nothing, and used for good (e.g., fiction) or evil (e.g., pernicious lies). But that comes out of the "deep learning" discrimination/classification networks in our (and other animal's) brains. What makes people unique is that we can express and communicate what our brains perceive, think about, and do in our human natural languages. The creation of the information is in our brains but the information we internally create is then serially communicated by our natural language organ in the left hemispheres of human brains.
So people don't just copy information, we create it out of, dare I say, nothing. When we create it out of something that we perceive and know other people can perceive, and verify for themselves, we are probably doing good.
Except when we lie, even unintentionally, because our brains are not very good with scientific or logical truth.
The amount of information that is replicated by human brains is only a small subset of the amount our brains create out of the necessity of how we survive and communicate among ourselves.
Here are the details on that.
Which is what this paper nicely demonstrates. That is my little replication of what the brain science tells us.
