When one thinks of information, one usually thinks of books, encyclopedias, and internet websites that one might use to write a paper. But when one reads this article about the nature of information, one can conclude that information is everywhere. It is probably harder to think of what is not information rather than what actually is information. Signs, colors, and sounds are all types of information that most use everyday, especially to drive. Mostly everything around us can be, in one way or another, an entity used to derive information from. Analog or digital, signs and semiotics, all of these things are ways to control, collect, store, and better understand information. But since we know so much about information, why is it so hard to understand some information? Information is forever changing and forever growing. Information is infinite. So then, how could one possibly fully understand something that is infinite?
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Yes, I agree its hard to think where information is absent rather than where it is present.However, note that Signs,colors, sounds etc. are ways of conveying information rather than being information themselves.
We do know a lot about information but it is mostly about storing, conveying etc. and even then the actual information being conveyed can be a difficult idea in itself .Such information will be difficult to understand even though easy to convey. There can, however, also be information that is difficult to convey.You might want to think about it, its a very interesting idea.
--Bharat
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