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Not sure what you mean by “invented term.” in any case, there seems to be a difference in describing a system with symbols and computational systems that use s
by dr_dshiv 5y ago
Not sure what you mean by “invented term.”
in any case, there seems to be a difference in describing a system with symbols and computational systems that use symbols for information processing. Some information processing seems possible in systems that don’t use symbols.
- ohnoNotAgain321 5y agoAny computational system uses symbols, whether or not a person has analysed the system and defined those symbols; information is symbols.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoYou are suggesting that information was not existing before symbols?
- arketyp 5y agoWhere and when information exists so do symbols, in the abstract sense. It’s not symbols as representation of meaning but symbols as mediating meaning.
- dr_dshiv 5y agoThat’s a strong claim that is not common. Humans are generally considered to be the only animals capable of symbolic thought [1]. Information flows in far simpler systems than symbolic systems. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/magazine/hunting-for-the-origins-of-symbolic-thought.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/magazine/hunting-for-the-...
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