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> The “information” is fabricated in this regard, pulled up out of the ether, and by decree christened as “meaning”. No, not fabricated, but inferred from a st
by naasking 3y ago
> The “information” is fabricated in this regard, pulled up out of the ether, and by decree christened as “meaning”.
No, not fabricated, but inferred from a structured corpus of information generated by other semantic processes (humans).
> Numbers carry no meaning, nor do the magnitudes arbitrarily assigned to meaning.
Prove it.
> The map is not the territory.
Except if the territory is information, in which case the map is literally the territory. Knowledge is information, is it not?