DISCLAIMER :
THE ONLY ABSOLUTES IN THE UNIVERSE ARE
CONSCIENCE, CHANGE AND RELATIVITY...
anything that IS or claims TO BE and
everything else dance around these concepts or entities.
by: Ignacio Zamora Gtz..
INFORMATION, FORMING, TAKING SHAPE, SYMBOL, LOGOS, ORDER, MEMORY, DATA, REPLICATE, COPY, COMMUNICATE, TRANSMIT.
All these words (coded symbols) are intimately related and they all mean the same.
Why? ....
Einstein once said, "If a theory cannot be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless."
Richad P. Feynman said. "If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize."
Richad P. Feynman also said "I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and of many things I don't know anything about, but I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose which is the way it really is as far as I can tell possibly. It doesn't frighten me."
I will attempt a very basic explanation or description of what INFORMATION is.
In trying to achieve this goal I will beg for you patience and perseverance because this is an alive page (as in: changing and growing). I will attempt this simple and at the same time complex explanation in three steps:
1.- Let's start by getting familiar with the words: Etymology, Semantics, Ontology and Epistemology.
2.- Then we will oversimplify Unity, Motion, Duality and Spectra concepts in nature for everyone to understand.
3.- Sense, Intelligence and Conscience preconditions for INFORMATION to exist and vice-versa.
PART ONE
Etymology is the study of the origins of words. The etymology of a word is its linguistic history.
For example, the word etymology comes to us from the Ancient Greek language. It is composed of two parts: the Greek word etymon, which means "the true sense of a word", combined with the Greek element logia, which means "doctrine, study". Combining these two parts gives us "the study of the true sense of words", which can be said to be the 'meaning' of the word etymology.
The etymology of names is the study of the origin and literal meaning of names.
SOURCE: http://www.behindthename.com/glossary/view/etymology
Semantics:
semantics (n)
"science of meaning in language," 1893, from French sémantique (1883); see semantic (also see -ics).
Replaced semasiology (1847), from German Semasiologie (1829), from Greek semasia "signification, meaning."
SOURCE: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=semantics
Semantics is the branch of linguistics that is concerned with why certain words signify certain things. In other words, what is the entire comprehensive definition of word beyond its denotative one found in a dictionary. Semantics looks to such things as the specific connotation of a word. Take the sentence "The girl was very hot." By itself the meaning of that sentence would vary from person to person depending upon such things as age, cultural background, etc. By placing the sentence within a context you are considering its semantic meaning. "It was summer. The girl was very hot" is completely different in meaning from "She was wearing a string bikini. The girl was very hot." Semantics also takes into consideration the historical changes in a word.
SOURCE: Timothy Sexton, Yahoo! Contributor Network Jul 27, 2007
Ontology (from onto-, from the Greek ὤν, ὄντος "being; that which is", present participle of the verb εἰμί, eimi "be", and -λογία, -logia: "science, study, theory") is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences.
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology
Epistemology from Ancient Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistēmē, “science, knowledge”), from ἐπίσταμαι (epistamai, “I know”) + -λογία (logia, “discourse”), from λέγω (legō, “I speak”). The term was introduced into English by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864).
Noun
epistemology (plural epistemologies)
1.(uncountable) The branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge; theory of knowledge, asking such questions as "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", "What do people know?", "How do we know what we know?". Some thinkers take the view that, beginning with the work of Descartes, epistemology began to replace metaphysics as the most important area of philosophy.
2.(countable) A particular theory of knowledge. In his epistemology, Plato maintains that our knowledge of universal concepts is a kind of recollection.
SOURCE: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/epistemology