Information and Meaning

Information, Work and Meaning

libraries, information & meaning

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Meaning in philosophy and meaning in information retrieval (IR)

Purpose -The paper explores the question of whether the differences between meaning in philosophy and meaning in information retrieval (IR) have implications for the use of philosophy in supporting research in IR. Design/methodology/approach Conceptual analysis and literature review. Findings There are some differences in the role of meaning in terms of purpose, content and use which should be ...

When Information Conveys Meaning

While some information is clearly meaningful and some clearly is not, no one has been able to identify exactly what the difference is. The major obstacle has been the way information and meaning are conceptualized: the one in the physical realm of tangible, objective entities and the other in the mental world of intangible, subjective ones. This paper introduces an approach that incorporates bo...

Meaning from sensory information.

Our brain is perhaps the most complex and fascinating system in the known universe. Billions of neurons talk to each other, share their messages and allow us to perform incredible feats with such facility that it seems even trivial. We hardly notice that we can effortlessly do something as complex as seeing, hearing, moving, thinking, remembering, feeling or even being aware of our own selves. ...