<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Greetings all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">A quick note to let those interested know that I had a paper accepted for presentation at an AI workshop (Open World Agents) at NeurIPS 2024. Of course, this is not the same as being accepted to The Conference itself – but it is still perhaps of interest to FIS as it continues/expands the 'theory of meaning' track I presented at IS4SI 2021.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I am still waiting on notification to a second NeurIPS workshop I applied to (Foundation Models for Science).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">The link for a PDF of this paper is:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://drive.google.com/file/d/11r5LHrzAV2wAPXAPbEMxO58GuTR48hdP/view?usp=share_link__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WkXPs2hbNzmydvfNrJcocyBp67ilfgFmOQGP0Y9yko8YO7HSpevpk5BQj1m39_jTcaPpUX0ngRlOfmeZ$">https://drive.google.com/file/d/11r5LHrzAV2wAPXAPbEMxO58GuTR48hdP/view?usp=share_link</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">The ABSTRACT:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">This paper explores a key issue in information theory seen by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver as a missing “theory of meaning”. It names structural fundaments to cover the matter. Varied informatic roles are first noted as likely elements for a general theory of meaning. It next deconstructs Shannon Signal Entropy in a priori terms to mark the signal literacy (contiguous logarithmic Subject Object primitives) innate to ‘scientific’ notions of information. It therein initiates general intelligence ‘first principles’ alongside a dualist-triune (2-3) pattern. This study thus tops today’s vague sense of meaningful ‘agent intelligence’ in artificial intelligence, framed herein via an Entropic/informatic continuum of serially varied ‘functional degrees of freedom’; all as a mildly-modified view of Signal Entropy.<br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:proxima-nova-1,proxima-nova-2,Tahoma,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;border-spacing:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18px"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td style="padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:0px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:auto;height:30px"> </td></tr><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td style="padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:auto"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:0"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://about.me/marcus.abundis?promo=email_sig__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WkXPs2hbNzmydvfNrJcocyBp67ilfgFmOQGP0Y9yko8YO7HSpevpk5BQj1m39_jTcaPpUX0ngfzXKQ40$" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(43,130,173);text-decoration:none;display:inline-block" target="_blank"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border-spacing:0px"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td align="left" valign="top" style="padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;width:auto;line-height:1"><img alt="--" width="0" height="0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;width:0px;height:0px;overflow:hidden"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:bold;font-style:inherit;font-size:18px;font-family:proxima-nova-1,Proxima-Nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Marcus Abundis</div><div style="margin:3px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-famil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