From Data to Semantic Information

Floridi, Luciano

doi:10.3390/e5020125

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“…7 That the data are meaningful, well-formed, and accurate allows it to conform to Floridi's definition of information rather than simply a collection or heap of individual bits of data. See (Floridi 2003(Floridi , 2007. Though it is outside the scope of this paper, Floridi's view is not without critics.…”

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Thomas Aquinas, Ronald Dworkin, and the Fourth Revolution: The Foundations of Law in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Smith

2023

Laws

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Since the publication of Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, the strategies of Surveillance Capitalists and appropriate responses to them have become common points of discussion across several fields. However, there is relatively little literature addressing challenges that Surveillance Capitalism raises for the foundations of law. This article outlines Surveillance Capitalism and then compares the views of Thomas Aquinas and Ronald Dworkin in four areas: truth and reality, reality and law, interpretation and social custom, and virtue and law; finally, it closes by asking whether the law alone can provide a sufficient response to Surveillance Capitalism. The overarching argument of the article is that, while Aquinas’s view of the foundations of law accounts for and responds to the challenges of Surveillance Capitalism more effectively than Dworkin’s, law alone cannot provide a sufficient response to this emerging phenomenon.

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Thomas Aquinas, Ronald Dworkin, and the Fourth Revolution: The Foundations of Law in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Smith

2023

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“…Several authors have attempted to explore the nature of information with a view to develop a theory that provides a formal framework to handle the essence of "meaning." For example, the standard definition of information that is declarative, objective, and semantic has received considerable attention in recent times [4]. However, due to the highly polymorphic and polysemantic nature of information it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to construct a general measure for information.…”

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Semantic reliability of multi-agent intelligent systems

Sundresh¹

2006

Bell Labs Tech. J.

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“…Such usage of meaningless information is different from the Standard Definition of semantic Information linked to linguistics where information is meaningful data[Floridi 2003]. Our systemic approach brings a different perspective on the subject of meaningful information by introducing the possibility to associate different meanings to a given information, including the lack of meaning.…”

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Computation on Information, Meaning and Representations. An Evolutionary Approach

Menant¹

2011

Information and Computation

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Understanding computation as "a process of the dynamic change of information" brings to look at the different types of computation and information. Computation of information does not exist alone by itself but is to be considered as part of a system that uses it for some given purpose. Information can be meaningless like a thunderstorm noise, it can be meaningful like an alert signal, or like the representation of a desired food. A thunderstorm noise participates to the generation of meaningful information about coming rain. An alert signal has a meaning as allowing a safety constraint to be satisfied. The representation of a desired food participates to the satisfaction of some metabolic constraints for the organism. Computations on information and representations will be different in nature and in complexity as the systems that link them have different constraints to satisfy. Animals have survival constraints to satisfy. Humans have many specific constraints coming in addition. And computers will compute what the designer and programmer ask for. We propose to analyze the different relations between information, meaning and representation by taking an evolutionary approach on the systems that link them. Such a bottom-up approach allows starting with simple organisms and avoids an implicit focus on humans, which is the Information and Computation 2 most complex and difficult case. To make available a common background for the many different cases, we use a systemic tool that defines the generation of meaningful information by and for a system submitted to a constraint [Menant, 2003]. This systemic tool allows to position information, meaning and representations for systems relatively to environmental entities in an evolutionary perspective. We begin by positioning the notions of information, meaning and representation and recall the characteristics of the Meaning Generator System (MGS) that link a system submitted to a constraint to its environment. We then use the MGS for animals and highlight the network nature of the interrelated meanings about an entity of the environment. This brings us to define the representation of an item for an agent as being the network of meanings relative to the item for the agent. Such meaningful representations embed the agents in their environments and are far from the Good Old Fashion Artificial Intelligence type ones. The MGS approach is then used for humans with a limitation coming from the unknown nature of human consciousness. Application of the MGS to artificial systems brings to look for compatibilities with different levels of Artificial Intelligence (AI) like embodied-situated AI, the Guidance Theory of Representations, and enactive AI. Concerns relative to different types of autonomy and organic or artificial constraints are highlighted. We finish by summarizing the points addressed and by proposing some continuations. A.1 Information and meaning. Meaning generation. A.1.1 Information. Meaning of information and quantity of information Information, meanings and represent...

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From Data to Semantic Information

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

Thomas Aquinas, Ronald Dworkin, and the Fourth Revolution: The Foundations of Law in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Thomas Aquinas, Ronald Dworkin, and the Fourth Revolution: The Foundations of Law in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Semantic reliability of multi-agent intelligent systems

Computation on Information, Meaning and Representations. An Evolutionary Approach

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