Posted by Yogesh Malhotra on March 13, 1998 at 22:05:51:

In Reply to: Red data posted by Denham on March 13, 1998 at 16:31:03:

Good point! One can replace 'This is red!' with 'Washington D.C. is the capital of USA' or with 'There are 16 ounces to a pound' in the above cases... and the same would hold, generally speaking... however, as observed by Denham... what is of interest is what we do with it... more so what it does to us... that is the link between information and action... which seems relevant for understanding knowledge as a context-sensitive, action-oriented process...

However, the earlier distinction of the following interactions observed by Don seems interesting, however, with some qualifications:

machine - machine : almost always data - bits and bytes - the language of machines...
human - machine : could be data, information or knowledge...
human - human : could be data, information or knowledge...

seems that humans provide the context, the meaning and provide the capability of translating information into [potential for] action... unless it is a programmed response, of course...

There is existing research on 'media richness' which is stirring up some new debate in the research circles, a topic to discuss perhaps on some other day...

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Follow Ups:

• Re: On Sense, Sensibility and Nonsense Tom Sudman 11:47:13 3/16/98 (2)
  • Do Machines 'Make' Sense? Yogesh Malhotra 00:32:03 3/18/98 (1)
    • Re: Do Machines 'Make' Sense? Ross Hall 11:03:07 3/22/98 (0)
• Re: On Sense, Sensibility and Nonsense Mezei 20:23:48 3/15/98 (7)
  • Re: On Sense, Sensibility and Nonsense Craig Maudlin 12:40:07 3/16/98 (5)
    • Re: On Sense, Sensibility and Nonsense Mezei 14:36:13 3/16/98 (3)
      • Re: On Sense, Sensibility and Nonsense Craig Maudlin 15:18:47 3/16/98 (2)
        • Hearing poetry, reading poetry, and storing poetry are different medias with different meanings... Mezei 22:13:23 3/16/98 (1)
          • Re: Hearing poetry, reading poetry, and storing poetry are different medias with different meanings... Craig Maudlin 11:55:35 3/17/98 (0)
    • Re: On Sense, Sensibility and Nonsense Craig Maudlin 12:58:17 3/16/98 (0)
  • Re: On Sense, Sensibility and Nonsense Yogesh Malhotra 23:30:52 3/15/98 (0)
• Re: On Sense, Sensibility and Nonsense Martyn R Jones 08:10:18 3/14/98 (9)
  • Re: On 'Common Sense' vs. 'Shared Sense' Yogesh Malhotra 17:15:16 3/15/98 (8)
    • Re: On 'Common Sense' vs. 'Shared Sense' TomSudman 11:56:48 3/16/98 (7)
      • Re: On 'Common Sense' vs. 'Shared Sense' Yogesh Malhotra 13:35:37 3/17/98 (6)
        • Re: On 'Common Sense' vs. 'Shared Sense' Jay Reay 16:51:52 3/17/98 (2)
          • Re: On 'Common Sense' vs. 'Shared Sense' Jay Reay 10:01:25 3/18/98 (0)
          • Your final paragraph says it all Tom Sudman 17:41:44 3/17/98 (0)
        • Re: On 'Common Sense' vs. 'Shared Sense' Jay Reay 16:48:10 3/17/98 (0)
        • Re: On 'Common Sense' vs. 'Shared Sense' Jay Reay 16:47:43 3/17/98 (0)
        • Re: On 'Common Sense' vs. 'Shared Sense' Jay Reay 16:47:25 3/17/98 (0)

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