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| | Data | Measurement. | | | Data | Measurement. | |
| | Information | Data that can be / is used or formatted for purpose. | | | Information | Data that can be / is used or formatted for purpose. | |
| | Knowledge | A set of interlinked nformation that can be used to plan, produce action, and interpret new information. | | | Knowledge | A set of interlinked information that can be used to plan, produce action, and interpret new information. | |
| | Thought | The processes of a knowledge-based system. | | | Thought | The drive- and goal-driven processes of a situated knowledge-based system. | |
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| | | \\ What It Is | Something of great importance to people. \\ Meaning seems "extracted" from other people's actions, utterances, attitudes, etc. \\ Proper handling of meaning is generally considered to require intelligence. | |
| | | Why It Is Important | Meaning seems to enter almost every aspect of cognition. | |
| | | My Theory | Meaning is generated when a causal-relational model is used to compute the //implications// of some action, state, event, etc. Any agent that does so will extract meaning when the implications interact with its goals in some way. | |
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| ====Symbols & Meaning==== | ====Symbols & Meaning==== |
| | \\ What are Symbols? | Peirce's Theory of Semiotics (signs) proposes 3 parts to a sign: a //sign/symbol//, an //object//, and an //interpretant//. \\ Example of symbol: an arbitrary pattern, e.g. a written word (with acceptable error ranges whose threshold determine when it is either 'uninterpretable' or 'inseparable from other symbols'. \\ Example of object: an automobile (clustering of atoms in certain ways). \\ Example of interpretant: Your mind as it experiences something in your mind's eye when you read the word "automobile". The last part is the most complex thing, because obviously what you see and I see when we read the word "automobile" is probably not exactly the same. | | | \\ What are Symbols? | Peirce's Theory of Semiotics (signs) proposes 3 parts to a sign: a //sign/symbol//, an //object//, and an //interpretant//. \\ Example of symbol: an arbitrary pattern, e.g. a written word (with acceptable error ranges whose threshold determine when it is either 'uninterpretable' or 'inseparable from other symbols'. \\ Example of object: an automobile (clustering of atoms in certain ways). \\ Example of interpretant: Your mind as it experiences something in your mind's eye when you read the word "automobile". The last part is the most complex thing, because obviously what you see and I see when we read the word "automobile" is probably not exactly the same. | |
