Gary F,
I was responding to your statement: "Bits (as the name implies!) can
only be small pieces of symbols in the semiotic sense of the word
"symbol"; they are not symbols."
Of course, a bit is not a symbol or a piece of symbol. It is a
measure of information. I was trying to indicate that there are
one-bit answers. By definition of sign, any sign used to answer must
be interpretable. An "I agree" or I disagree" or a "Yes" or "No"
require just as clear interpretation as a 0 or 1.
Howard
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