MARCO:
> > "A couple of ponders about calling the basic stuff of the universe
> > "information:" can there be information without an entity to be
informed?
>
> Yes. When the entity is "informed", information becomes communication.
>
> > And is intent to inform implied in the idea of information?
>
> Attention! To IN-FORM is literally to give form to something that is not
> formed. We use today this verb to mean to communicate, but it's not
exactly
> the same."
RICK:
This seems like semantic hair splitting and I think (IMHO) it begs the
question--- Information may be transferred from the "informer" to the
"informed" via communication ("communication" I also point out is an action,
not "stuff")... but the question is, if no entity has been informed and no
entity has informed anything, can you rightly call this stuff "information"
without losing the ACCEPTED meaning of the term? And if you can't, then why
use the term "information" at all? After all, we could redefine the meaning
of any word we want... why choose "information" it doesn't mean what we
mean...???
Perhaps "Data" would be a better term for what your describing...
anything at all can be considered Data and it would let you skate right
through the horns of the Informer/Informed relationship.
It's all Good (and according to the MoQ and the Beatles, it's getting better
all the time),
Rick
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