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Human language requires a human receiver, like art requires an audience.
by cwmoore 2mo ago
Human language requires a human receiver, like art requires an audience.
- AnthonyMouse 2mo agohttps://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf https://people.math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shanno... > The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with certain physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem.
- cwmoore 2mo agoSweet source. I could have said more in one paragraph and 55 pages of formative theory than the two lines above.