 The paradox is related to other open problems in computer science and philosophy. Suppose that John is looking for a unicorn. It is very unlikely that unicorns exist, so, in terms of Shannon’s theory, John gets a lot of information if he finds one. Yet from a descriptive Kolmogorov point of view, John does not get new information, since he already knows what unicorns are. The related paradox of systematic search might be formulated as follows: