> 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

> 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.