Posted by Yogesh Malhotra on March 11, 1998 at 23:15:05:

In Reply to: Re: Data, Information & Knowledge posted by Craig Maudlin on March 11, 1998 at 18:39:00:

Your message reminds me of a communication that I had on this issue in the June of 1995 with the renowned professor of psychology and computer science and inventor of genetic algorithms Dr. John Holland. Here is what he observed... in the context of the 'difficulties' of the information theory for application to organizations as self-adaptive (knowledge creating) systems.

"I think you have hit upon an area that has seen very little coordinated research. There has been an over-concentration on Shannon's definition of information in terms of uncertainty (a very good definition for the original purposes) with little attempt to understand how MEANING directs a message in a network. This, combined with a concentration on end-points (equilibria) rather than properties of the trajectory (move sequence) in games has lead to a very unsatisfactory treatment of the dynamics of organizations."

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• Re: Difficulties with Information Theory Craig Maudlin 19:18:03 3/12/98 (3)
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    • Re: Difficulties with Information Theory Martyn R Jones 08:26:34 3/25/98 (0)

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