Re: information as a selection

From: mark burgin <[email protected]>
Date: Fri 17 May 2002 - 21:50:27 CEST

"Gottfried Stockinger (by way of marijuan@posta.unizar.es)" wrote:

> Gente,
>
> What Collier and others call potential information, isnt it just an ensemble
> of signs and signals, which for themself dont have any meaning at all, if
> they are not interpreted. Information is something actual, news, innovation,
> something different from what has been before. There is no "old"
> information. Even history is to be rewritten every time. Information depends
> on the difference from what was or from what is expected to be. It marks one
> specific event out of a variety of possible events.
> Therefore, the concept of information only works within the frame of
> communication processes which produce the specific formats and contents of
> information. Order from noise.
>
> Gottfried Stockinger
>
> Salvador, Brasil: *71 374 7563
> Vienna, Austria: * 1 983 3979

The important idea of Gottfried Stockinger that the concept of information only
works within the frame of communication processes is supported by a lot of
evidence and correlates with one of the main principles of the general theory
of information, elements of which are presented in the paper (M. Burgin THE
ESSENCE OF INFORMATION: PARADOXES, CONTRADICTIONS, AND SOLUTIONS). This
principle states that it is possible to consider information only in
interaction.
Received on Fri May 17 21:51:49 2002

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