INFORMATION: Implicit or Explicit
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1677 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
A frequent semantic muddle results of the use of the term “information”as applied to the postulated information content of, for example, the geological strata, or a crystal, or the genome.
None had any information value until their existance was discovered in the first place and thereafter progressively interpreted within some slowly constructed and evolving scientific theory (i.e., frame of reference)
Curiously enough, we can now agree that the “genetic code”, for example, contains “information” only after giving it at least the beginnings of an explicit meaning .
Thus, any hypothesis about implicit information can emerge only after the initial formulation of some more or less verifiable explicit meaning applied to some entity that must be clearly identified (another construction of meaning), to begin with.
For more, see the following entry