[FoRK] Meaning and interpretation

[Jeff Bone]

On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:54 PM, Paul Jimenez wrote:

> I think his reasoning goes like this: all experience is essentially
> subjective, so the only way to truly communicate is via shared
> experience, so science - which depends on reproducible experiences
> - is much better at communicating meaning than other methods, since
> any method of sharing meaning that leaves the experience open to
> interpretation is incomplete. Only by guaranteeing that anyone can
> reproduce the experience can any meaning be shared.

Thought:  an act of interpretation is an act of compression.   
"Meaning" is a semantically-compressed representation of an  
experiential data set.

$0.02,

jb