Meaning

Meaningone ofmost difficultcomplex concepts we have, studiedsemantics (a branchlinguistics)inphilosophylanguage (the theorymeaningparticular).

See especially: philosophylanguagethe meaningmeaning.

Meaning inwider sensealso part ofgeneral theoryinformation.

This theory triesformulate rules, about

• the way meaningful informationemerging
• how meaningful informationconserved
• howmeaningsomething can be measured
• how informationmeaninglost again.

The meaningan information orthingits value or its sense.

Oftenmeaningan information orthingonly realized, when itlost ortendsget lost.

Tablecontents

1 How does meaning come up ? 2 How can we measure meaning ? 3 In which sequenceinformation don`t we find any meaning ? 4 Informationmeaningalways somethingbetween complete randomnesscomplete uniform order 5 Literature

How does meaning come up ?

Meaningful things can come up

• outnature
• outhuman activity
• out ofactivityGod or other religous concepts

Many people think, that meaningful things can only be made by mankind. Thatcourse depends onway, howword meaningdefined. How broad or narrow you thinkit. Fromscientific pointview meaning can emerge outnature itself, withouthelpman or any other creator. An important example ofnew productionmeaning isbiological evolutionnew species.

How can we measure meaning ?

The qualityan information , its meaning,not as easily measured asquantityan information. You can think ofbook,which you can find only nonsense. Onother hand you can think ofbook fullmathematical formulas. Insecond book every letterevery sign have their meaning. The quantityinformation ,examplenumberletters ornumberpages, can besame. The qualityboth bookscertainly different.

Here we must establish other criteriasmeasurequalityits information: For example:

• How often wasbook printed ?
• How often wasbought ?
• How many editions didbook have ?
• Howisbook onmarket ?
• In how many other languages was this book translated ?
• How do critics think about this book ?
• How doespublic think about this book ?

The quantitymeaning can be quite small, whereasquantitykilobytes can be quite big. You can fillscreenyour computerrandomly chosen letters. Then you havemaximuminformation quantity butminimuminformation quality.

In which sequenceinformation don`t we find any meaning ?

If you takerandom sequence01, then you can assignit only some meaning on howthis sequenceor howwas created. Aside this you can not find any meaningit.

Informationmeaningalways somethingbetween complete randomnesscomplete uniform order

Literature

• Stonier, Tom: InformationMeaning. An Evolutionary Perspective. 1997. XIII, 255 p. 23,5 cm.
  • ISBN: 3-540-76139-X - SPRINGER, B.-