information as a selection

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

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Received on Tue May 14 00:52:32 2002