From Value-Substitution to Sapiopoiesis
An Ontocybernetic Argument for Reframing Signal, Noise, and Meaning
By Leon Tsvasman
1. Signal and Noise Are Not Ontological Kinds
What we call “signal” or “noise” is never intrinsic to data itself. It is always the result of a cut — a decision by a system about what to value. Claude Shannon, in his Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948), defined info…
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