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Great definitions. I would make a distinction between the measure of mutual information and the mutual information itself. The former is obviously not the same
by yters 7y ago
Great definitions. I would make a distinction between the measure of mutual information and the mutual information itself. The former is obviously not the same as the system effect itself. But the latter may be more related to your SC function.
- westoncb 7y ago> But the latter may be more related to your SC function Definitely seems related to me. It's an interesting angle on it I hadn't considered before. One idea is that it's due to something like compatibility of formats: in order for some information to be 'meaningful' in the context of some other system, its format has to be something recognizable to that other system; and the ability to recognize implies some commonality[0]. That commonality implies a certain amount of mutual information. I don't feel certain that the mutual information would be sufficient to account for all the effects of semantic content—but I wouldn't be surprised if it was ;) [0] I wonder if this is something that's been studied: mutual information between patterns and recognizers of patterns... I could see there being some lower bound on mutual information.