Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Today's Emphasis

We live in a universe of information, thinking it's a physical universe. Perhaps we can't live without Pleroma, the physical universe, but we don't live in it; we live in the universe of information, which is minimally one level of orthogonality away from the physical universe.

Light transmits information about the physical universe to our retina where our visual cortex interprets the information. The light is data, but the information processed in our minds, though also employing data, is not data: it is macroinformation, abstract, multiple-level, complex, interpreted information.

All data is information. All metainformation is information. All macroinformation is information.
Not all information is data. Not all information is metainformation. But all macroinformation is interpreted.

There is no information in the human world (/ Creatura / Sentiens / Persona (/ Pathologica ...) /) that is not interpreted: and no interpretation is whole, complete, final ...

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