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I did my Masters thesis informational ontology. Here's the thing: Shannon's information theory is a mathematical formalism, and is not enough to define informat
by gintas 16y ago
I did my Masters thesis informational ontology. Here's the thing: Shannon's information theory is a mathematical formalism, and is not enough to define information. Furthermore, information can only be defined within bounds of a model, and there are typically many ways and many abstraction levels available to describe a phenomenon, so the question of objectivity of information is still open.
If to assert objectivity you try to pick the lowest possible layer of abstraction at the quantum mechanics level, you lose the whole layer of semantic information, i.e. information about something, which is actually the primary concept of information, and "information" simply becomes a name for a set of mathematical formulas, and as such it may not be treated as a substance.