“Shannon’s theory of information ignores #meaning. In his communications study, he was only interested in whether the bits transmitted reduce the #uncertainty in a receiver about the sender’s state”
Or reducing the uncertainty about what the sender was meaning to say?😀
https://aeon.co/essays/what-can-schrodingers-cat-say-about-3d-printers-on-mars
#Meaning is usually described with #VectorSpace #Semantics as in the article below comparing the works from #CAShannon and #AMTuring:
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1093/bjps/axx029
Basically, what vector space semantics says is that the meaning of a message depends on the #Context provided by the sender’s and the receiver’s #DynamicalSystem #Knowledge #State.
As they are two different physical entities they will obviously be in different states, so the two meaning can never be exactly the same.
