This is quite interesting. There’s a lot of attempt to figure out how we get meaning out of information. I think of it mostly in terms of how consciousness comes to relate to information in useful ways, but that makes sense to me mostly because I’m working in a strange paradigm (transcendental phenomenological idealism). But I think I see a lot of the same sort of efforts to deal with meaning popping up in formal theories of consciousness even if meaning is the exact thing that those are driving at; I just see the two as so closely tied it’s hard to address one without touching on the other.
This is quite interesting. There’s a lot of attempt to figure out how we get meaning out of information. I think of it mostly in terms of how consciousness comes to relate to information in useful ways, but that makes sense to me mostly because I’m working in a strange paradigm (transcendental phenomenological idealism). But I think I see a lot of the same sort of efforts to deal with meaning popping up in formal theories of consciousness even if meaning is the exact thing that those are driving at; I just see the two as so closely tied it’s hard to address one without touching on the other.