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ohnoNotAgain321 | 4 years ago

Any computational system uses symbols, whether or not a person has analysed the system and defined those symbols; information is symbols.

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dr_dshiv|4 years ago

You are suggesting that information was not existing before symbols?

arketyp|4 years ago

Where and when information exists so do symbols, in the abstract sense. It’s not symbols as representation of meaning but symbols as mediating meaning.