entropy

The levelling. A signal with no modulation carries nothing: a pure carrier tone, unvarying in pitch and volume, is silent in the sense that matters, because nothing in it distinguishes one moment from the next. Information is whatever opposes that levelling. This is noise as the enemy: the tendency of any pocket of distinction to disperse toward the most probable state, not through attack but through duration alone. averaging toward dominance is this law operating on the set of photographs a model was trained on. And the levelling has a most-levelled case: at a given power, the Gaussian is the distribution carrying the most entropy, which is why the static a generation starts from is not just any randomness but the maximally undifferentiated state — see octaves.