Non-Informational Access
| Collection | GlossariumBITri |
|---|---|
| Author | Antonio Manuel Liz Gutiérrez |
| Editor | Antonio Manuel Liz Gutiérrez |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Number | 1 |
| ID | 70 |
| Object type | Concept |
| Domain | Cognition Philosophy of Mind |
| es | acceso no informacional |
| fr | schéma conceptuel |
| de | Begriffslandkarte |
A non-informational access is an access that is not informational. Non-informational access may be physical or experiential. In that sense, informational access is in contrast both with physical access and with experiential –or qualitative- access. To have informational access to a certain amount of money is not the same as to have physical access to that amount of money. To have informational access to a certain state of pain is not the same either than to have an experiential access to that state of pain.
Of course, we can elaborate theories about information according to which information is identified with certain physical states or properties. In addition, we can elaborate theories about experience according to which experience is identified with some sorts of informational states. However, examples as those above presented show that such identifications would always involve very strong ontological compromises. Informational relations seem to be very different from physical relations, and very different too from qualitative, experiential or fenomenological relations.
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