What is information
The experiential quality of information. The continual bombardment of sensory input, most of which is ignored, is somehow distilled into information, into something we can use, something that has some value.
When we are informed, our world view is updated, and future behaiviour is changed to take into accout this new information.
transform it to knowledge. What we know about the world. No ones neurological library of knowledge is identical. Everyone's brain has a unique structure. Within the constraints of the uncertainty of quantum mechanics, there is an objective reality. Objectivity has a habit of slapping us in the face. The objectivity arbitrator for humans is the legal system.
Information can be true or false? Post modenism and virtual worlds. Abstraction of information and the exploitation of this abstaction via marketing and manipulation.
our transformation to knowledge can be distorted. errors of perception, errors of interpretation, errors of preconception.
Information vectors, primary vector is our senses and this is differentiated by individual capacity.
and structure. words and numbers Digital information
information, noise and entropy
data and information
the cost of information
thermodynamics of information, structures far from equilibrium
the cosmology of information