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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 8:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Food for thought
On 19 Apr 2015, at 05:13, John Clark wrote:
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 5:57 PM, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote:
> pls. tellme: what should we call 'information'?
Information is a measure of surprise, and it turns out that surprise is not
continuous but comes in lumps. And we understand quite a bit about information,
in fact information is the only thing we do understand.
I agree.
The problem is that the term information is also used, in the everyday
language, for "meaning" of some sentences. This is not directly related to
Shannon or algorithmic information theory, but more on semantics, model theory,
and other theories of "meaning" (usually less well know by the general public)..
Also the term has the meaning in the computer science/technology/sector of
anything that is transmitted, or stored. Often the technology infrastructure is
unaware of and even uninterested in the “content” of the “information” it moves
about and stores in vast datacenter repositories. It is just bits; and the
systems are concerned only with the accurate storage & and retrieval of those
bits as well as the correct routing and delivery of those bits as desired by
the processes running within those systems. As far as such systems are
concerned all the bits being managed, stored, moved, transformed, re-stored,
cached, and whatever other operations are performed all of this is
“information”.
Chris
Bruno
John K Clark
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