LOGON CONTENT
Charles François (2004). LOGON CONTENT, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1953.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1953 ▶ |
| Object type | Human sciences, Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
- “The structural information content or number of logons (number of independently variable features) in a representation” (D. Mac KAY, 1969, p.165).
As an example, Mac KAY gives “the number of independent coefficients required to specify a given waweform over a given period of time” (Ibid).
One should possibly further extend the concept of logon. G.R. JOHNSON observes that: “(The) content (of an information), whether contained in an act of speech or ”processed“ by a nervous system, can only be inferred from the linguistic and other behaviors of humans”, and… “… deaths threats are not equivalent to marriage proposals, even if they contain the same number of bits of information” (1992, p.1148).