Saturday, November 05, 2005

Intension

coming next

Macroinformation is an intensional mapping of the intensional universe. Information extends in informational space, not in physical space. There are analogies between our models of physical dimension -- starting with the familiar concepts of length, width, depth; but we should also mark the differences. And the first difference to mark is that information is not physical. It manifests length and depth (and perhaps little curly dimensions too) by metaphor: all of which doesn't mean that informational dimension isn't just as "real" as physical dimension.

Don't be confused by the apparent physical manifestation of data: the character A on the chalk board. The board is physical, the chalk is physical ... but the letter A is not. It is intensional: has no spatial extension. The chalk may be two centimeters high, or ten meters ... the letter is neither. The sounds "salad days" linger in the theater for a second or so; but the macroinformation is waxing these hundreds of years later.

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