Bateson 49: "[T]here is the whole realm of creativity, art, learning, and evolution, in which the ongoing processes of change feed on the random" (emphasis in original)
"Readiness can serve to select components of the random which thereby become new information. But always a supply of random appearances must be available from which new information can be made."
50: "for the creation of new order, the workings of the random, the plethor of uncommited alternatives (entropy) is necessary"