The Nature of Information

The lecture notes for the nature of information is very helpful in defining information. It describes using Icons: direct representations of objects, Indices: indirect representations of objects nessasarily related, and Symbols: arbitrary representations of objects. The notes also describe their relation to eachother in a triangle where signs impact the agent who impact the thing which impacts the sign again. The nature of information lecture notes also are good at explaining semiotics or the study of the sign system. Where people understand the signs and all of their meanings as they apply to them.

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