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When Was the Age of Information?
- kijin 11y ago> An emic approach ... considering what historical actors “rather than the present author or his readers” considered to be “knowledge.” The "emic approach" may be helpful if your plan is to study how people from other times thought about their own life and work. It's a nice way to get yourself fully immersed in a different world. But by focusing too much on what those people actually thought, it risks leaving out all the unacknowledged and unrecorded assumptions that lubricated their society. Some of those things only become apparent when you are far enough from the scene. There is "information" as it objectively exists and functions in the universe. Then there is "information" as it is subjectively acknowledged and exploited by any given person or society at any given time. The two are related but not identical. Both are interesting and important to study. It's okay if you want to focus on one more than the other, but there is no need to disparage the other.
- cgio 11y agoWhat is the objective existence of information and how is it different from signal?
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoInformation is always measurable in bits. I am not sure that all signals are always measurable in bits. Prior to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, Egyptian hieroglyphics were signals without information - no decoder existed. Ironically, the number of bits needed to encode all Egyptian hieroglyphics would have been calculable ( presumably the alphabet was finite ) , but they could not have been decoded.