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

• dr_dshiv 5y ago
  You are suggesting that information was not existing before symbols?
  • arketyp 5y 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.
    • dr_dshiv 5y ago
      That’s a strong claim that is not common. Humans are generally considered to be the only animals capable of symbolic thought [1]. Information flows in far simpler systems than symbolic systems. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/magazine/hunting-for-the-origins-of-symbolic-thought.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/magazine/hunting-for-the-...
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