Information-not-thing: further problems with and alternatives to the belief that information is physical

  • Dinneen J
  • Brauner C
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Abstract

In this short paper, we show that a popular view in information science, information-as-thing,fails to account for a common example of information that seems physical. We then demonstrate how thedistinction between types and tokens, recently used to analyse Shannon information, can account for thissame example by viewing information as abstract, and discuss existing definitions of information that areconsistent with this approach. Dans ce court article nous montrons qu'une vision populaire en sciences de l'information,l'information en tant qu’une chose, échoue à rendre compte d'un exemple commun d'information quisemble physique. Nous démontrons ensuite comment la distinction type/token, utilisée récemment pouranalyser l'information de Shannon, peut rendre compte de ce même exemple en considérant l'informationcomme abstraite, et nous discutons des définitions existantes de l’information qui sont compatibles aveccette approche.

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Dinneen, J. D., & Brauner, C. (2018). Information-not-thing: further problems with and alternatives to the belief that information is physical. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes Du Congrès Annuel de l’ACSI. https://doi.org/10.29173/cais1011

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