Re: [Ag Meinungsfindungstool] Pirate Party Germany - "Opinion Forming Tool" (Working Group) - Next Meeting

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Marc schrieb:
> Alexander Praetorius schrieb:
> > Michael Allan schrieb:
> > > > > ** "Information media" or "information system" is perhaps not a
> > > > > good name for this category. All three corners of the
> > > > > triangle are concerned with informational content.
> > > > Maybe. So could you make suggestions for a better name? :-)
> > > "Information" seems too broad, and "fact" too narrow. Maybe
> > > "knowledge system"?
> > Thats an open issues.
> > Currently we are trying to create precise definitions for several terms.
> > One of them is "Information" and it seems as there is no consensus about
> > what
> > it should mean.
> > So personally I think "Knowledge System" might be a better word, but 
> > there
> > is a
> > complex of terms that are very hard to define.
> > For me, it's a chain of terms in the following order:
> > Noise -> Signals/Signs/Symbols/Data/Evidence -> Information -> knowledge 
> > ->
> > wisdom
> That's one possible good definition, but I would refine to the following:
>
> 1) DATA == character + meaning
> 2) INFORMATION == data + context
> 3) KNOWLEDGE == information + experience

may i jump in here?

1) combine Alex with Marc: Values (data) are everything measurable, so 
mathematically describable as elements of sets

2) Information = values (data) related to each other by repeatable, 
coherent processes of changes of values (physical action). The 
measurability allows the storing and mapping of the values, the 
repeatability the reproducing of the processes by the sequence and 
relations of the values, so creating ordered structures (context)
( s. 
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information#Information_als_Ver.C3.A4nderung )

3) “Knowledge” is the whole existing mapping of an intelligence with 
"intelligence" as the ability to assimilate and process information via 
mapping. This works because information is repeatable action, so marked by 
states and the succession of states. Even though the dynamics of 
information cannot be stored (because changeability is the opposite of 
stability and storability), the different “degrees” of the dynamics 
can be learnt by the repetition of the states

why knowledge is so important? Because the mapped information offers 
predictability for if you know a process is repeatable and you are able to 
determine the beginning, you can foresee its end. Decisions wouldn't make 
sense without a prognosis how things will proceed