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Q10.Consider the following text by Katherine Hayles: "Nicolas S. Tzannes pointed out that whereas Shannon and Weiner define information in terms of what it is, MacKay defines it in terms of what it does. The formulation emphasizes the reification that information undergoes in the Shannon-Wiener theory. Stripped of context, it becomes a mathematical quantity weightless as sunshine, moving in a rarefied realm of pure probability, not tied down to bodies or material instantiations. When information is made representational, as in MacKay's model, it is conceptualized as an action rather than a thing. Verb-like, it becomes a process that someone enacts, and thus it necessarily implied context and embodiment. The price it pays for embodiment is difficulty of quantification and loss of universality." Based on the above text, which of the following statements is/are TRUE?