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Informavore

Term used for an organism that consumes information

The term informavore (also spelled informivore) characterizes an organism that consumes information. It is meant to be a description of human behavior in modern information society, in comparison to omnivore, as a description of humans consuming food. George A. Miller{{Citation | editor-last = Machlup | editor-first = Fritz | editor2-last = Mansfield | editor2-first = Una coined the term in 1983 as an analogy to how organisms survive by consuming negative entropy (as suggested by Erwin Schrödinger{{Citation

An early use of the term was in a newspaper article by Jonathan Chevreau{{Citation where he quotes a speech made by Zenon Pylyshyn. Soon after, the term appeared in the introduction of Pylyshyn's seminal book on Cognitive Science, Computation and Cognition.{{Citation | url-access = registration

More recently the term has been popularized by philosopher Daniel Dennett in his book Kinds of Minds{{Citation | archive-date = 2008-01-22 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080122020530/http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-inf3.htm | url-status = live

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