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>"Shannon's theory of information ignores . In his communications study, he was only interested in whether the bits transmitted reduce the in a receiver about the sender's state"

Or reducing the uncertainty about what the sender was **meaning** to say?😀

aeon.co/essays/what-can-schrod

is usually described with as in the article below comparing the works from and :

journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full

Basically, what vector space semantics says is that the meaning of a message depends on the provided by the sender's and the receiver's .

As they are two different physical entities they will obviously be in different states, so the two meaning can never be *exactly* the same.

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