yikes.

[luciab]

I have just read 19 pages of tiny text (some of it teensy tiny) about the meanings of "information." Typologies, concepts, definitions, whether or not something must be true, or intentional, or resolve uncertainty, to qualify as "information." (I am at least nearing the end of the chapter.) Then, after wading through all this stuff, I come upon the following sentence: "Therefore, let us treat 'information' as a primitive term, as a phenomenon that we all recognize when we see it in its various forms." Soooooo..... I can't define art, but I know it when I see it? Kinda like that? Man, this class is going to be a killer. I'm trying to do some pre-reading (class doesn't start till the 28th) so as to have a clue about what the teacher is talking about. This will be doubly difficult because she is Korean and still has a heavy accent. At least I know her and have a bit of an idea about how her mind works, and if I can plow through this book it'll really help.