Hello Neil I welcome this approach to a closer concept of information
>Paradigm cases of structures with semantic > information — pictures, sentences, programs — are built by the thought > and action of intelligent agents. Paradigm is wrong, intelligent agents do not build any information (lets put all together within the word). We all forget that once we were 2 and how we learned language, this is to say that Georges once was intelligent enough to learn his mother tongue, he did not created that information, was not built by him as the intelligent agent he is. >So we need to show how genes and > cells — neither intelligent systems themselves nor the products of > intelligence — can carry semantic information, and how the information > they carry explains their biological role. We need some kind of > reductive explanation of semantic information. Cells, proteins, in short "things" do not carry information, they are there to point to information, and "the agent" (remove intelligent) will read and "understand" accordingly. If she makes that means survival, if not she dies. A friend musician of me, uses to invite me to the front of a public building, and he plays on his guitar the "melody/rhythm" reading the open/closed windows sequence. I dont believe the building is "carrying" that music, there is not music whatsoever, and on my end I'm certainly blind to it, but he plays it believe me, air conditioning, moldings, etc, help to play the the score. He laughs and enjoys a lot, >If we think of genes or cells as literally carrying semantic information, > our problem changes. When you say here "semantic information" you use two words to express...? semantic is attibute of information? Then information is leading to...? But all this is old stuff, When medicine says for instance that: hormones are "chemical messengers" is telling us something enormous that we actually do not see. Wait a minute, please read slowly the huge consequence of that.
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