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<div>Lars-Göran Johansson</div>
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<div class="">6 mars 2020 kl. 11:37 skrev Christophe Menant <<a href="mailto:christophe.menant@hotmail.fr" class="">christophe.menant@hotmail.fr</a>>:</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="" class="">It is indeed difficult to define information as it applies to many different things. But these different things have in common to be agents, and agency may be a “key feature” of information. Take away the agent, information
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And the reason of being of information is its meaning for the agent. Information exists only by i</span><span lang="EN-US" class="">ts meaning for the agent which uses it to satisfy its constraints.<br class="">
The agent can then be looked at as “an identifiable entity submitted to internal constraints and capable of actions for the satisfaction of the constraints” (see para 3.2.3 in</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/MENCSA-2" id="LPlnk699524" class="">https://philpapers.org/rec/MENCSA-2</a>).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
This would bring to a definition of information like “energy variation which leads an agent to generate meanings to satisfy its constraints” (looks like a rewording of “a difference that makes a difference"….)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
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Using the term ’agent’ in the definition of information just highlights Wittgenstein’s point. What is the common characteristics for all things called ’agents’? And ’generate meanings’? What is that?</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">De :</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fis <<a href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es" class="">fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>>
de la part de Loet Leydesdorff <<a href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net" class="">loet@leydesdorff.net</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Envoyé :</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>vendredi 6 mars 2020 07:47<br class="">
<b class="">À :</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>João Alvaro Carvalho <<a href="mailto:jac@dsi.uminho.pt" class="">jac@dsi.uminho.pt</a>>; fis <<a href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" class="">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Objet :</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Fis] [External Email] Re: defining information</font>
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<div class="">I gave up looking for an unifying definition of information.</div>
<div class="">As soon I switch to another context (for example, moving from the context of organisational work to the human mind or to the cell) the key features are different.</div>
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This problem is precisely a reason to stick to a content-free, i.e., mathematical definition of information. Information can then further be made relevant in any special theory. The application is not dimension-free. </div>
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