Another great quote, I apologise for reading it again, I am always bringing this one out because it's elegant, is Quine who restates Shannon and Weaver in a way:
"The notion of information is indeed clear enough... it is central to the theory of communication. It makes sense relative to one or another pre-assigned matrix of alternatives... You have to say in advance what features are going to count." No pre-conception, no conception. Otherwise its novel, and a confusing jumble until some ordering, naming and searching of existing patterns has taken place. The next time, maybe then it's okay for those sensible impressions to become worthy of a symbol, like the number 42. In that case there are necessary conditions for the perception of 42 trees falling, other than the physical fact itself. On Fri, 20 May 2011 13:01:54 +0800 Chris McCormick <ch...@mccormick.cx> wrote: > chemicals and electricity inside the perceiver's physical head, > models another part of the universe - what it calls the "42 trees > falling". -- Andy Farnell <padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk> _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list