You may be surprised to know that the subject of 'semantic information' is shallow and vague in its treatment by the present academia. True to the reductionist approach all the bits are there widely spread among many sub-topics, but where is the 'whole'? Have a look on the Wikipedia its just a sub-heading under semiotics! But this is the 'information' age.. semantic implied as communication is not possible without it, but what is it really? This is actually indicative of a much deeper problem which begins with this subject, the tip of an iceberg!
For example the Wiki makes much of vague statements like "information" as a "difference that makes a difference".. or “So a generalized definition of the concept should be: "Information" = An answer to a specific question".. and Complex definitions of both "information" and "knowledge" make such semantic and logical analysis difficult, but the condition of "transformation" is an important point in the study of information as it relates to knowledge,” What on earth are they on about? This is a smoke screen, to hide a deep truth someone doesn't want anyone to know! It should not come as a surprise that we are not all reductionists! I am entitled to ask what is observationally true here?
Semantic information has five essential prerequisites to its existence:
- A pure alphabet (or encoding)
- Grammatical structure (syntax or language)
- A method of writing it (sending machinery)
- A method of reading it (receiving machinery)
- Purpose
All design is based on it, it is always specified and always precedes the object of its creation of which it is the symbolic representation.. did you get all that? Its really important.. We are entitled to question why this is missing from the topics of information and design in the Wikipedia?
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