Topic: | Re:Re:Information as a nominalization |
Posted by: | Juan Arce |
Date/Time: | 09/07/2004 10:55:53 |
My point is that whenever we said that something has informatión we forget that we mean that something is about something else. Information and aboutness are synonyms. We use the notion of information to explain almost everything in the realm of the living so we say that: -Communication consist in information transfer from one place to another or from one person to another... -The nervous system and the brain processes information to generate behaviour -The DNA contains information about the organism. It seems to us perfectly reasonable to speak this way, and to explain this way. Now change information for aboutness: -Communication consist in aboutness transfer from one place to another or from one person to another... -The nervous system and the brain processes aboutness to generate behaviour -The DNA contains aboutness about the organism. Isn't something strange going on here?..... Do we really need the notion of information to explain those phenomena? is it something that has only become a commodity just because everybody seems to understand what we say? Isn't a bit strange that we want to understand those phenomenom in terms of some things pointing to others? |