What is Information?

[@ApocalypseCatLibrarian]

Thanks, Peter. As always, this is great content. Thanks for taking the time and for bringing us Cookie Monster's unlimited wisdom.

[@markmunro7570]

HI! I liked your video. Here is my proposed definition. - Information is the variously organized data, that is the operand, of a decision making process, which has consequence in a larger context.

[@AsiimweJames-d9z]

1:55

[@MetaphysicalAxiom]

Good stuff. thx again. This economically impoverished autodidact is very glad there are those like yourself that pass the baton in the relay race of knowledge. I will pay that forward.

[@EleazarAguilar-n1h]

Clelia

[@EleazarAguilar-n1h]

1:08

[@LordBitememan]

Information is when I hear something and say "Wow, I didn't know that. That was interesting." Something isn't information when you tell me something you thought was interesting and my first reaction is "I really didn't need to know that."

[@StacksFacts]

Innnnteresting! It fits the "news about something" bit, but has an added layer of "that I care about" which I think is probably how most people approach whether or not to make that jump from "info" to "knowledge." I can dig it!

[@colt4505]

So information is subjective?

[@colt4505]

Information isn't subjective. Maybe storing it is though.

[@Jabrils]

"find meaning according to context" wow. this ideal should be more widespread period.

[@tassamoo]

Damn, two of my fav youtuber is actually a friend.

[@seanehle8323]

As a scientist, I get a kind of vertigo-like feeling when peering at over the edge of a baseless foundation when contemplating the question, "What possible, irrefutable means can there be to distinguish information from misinformation?" The whole process of science is just a guess to an answer to that question. I'm clearly biased in favor of the quality of this guess, but it is a guess. At the end of the day, and all of science is just an experiment to see if this guess answers that question. And that's the spiral of thinking I peer off into.

[@MetaphysicalAxiom]

added to LIS playlist and shared on social media else where. thx so much for this.

[@JohnStephenWeck]

Information is the structure of the universe. When you communicate, you are moving bits of structure between memory systems. Our minds are actually made of software (information stored in a memory system, like the cortex). So our minds are really made of pure structure (which is separate from the hardware structure, like atoms and brains). Using software you can build entire alternate universes (like game-worlds, or the matrix movie). bye ;)

[@JohnStephenWeck]

No, true and false don't matter. Your mind, and communications in general, don't care about the truth. They still have structure (information) no matter what the truth status is.

[@ziopino1018]

"Our minds are actually made of software" is a highly debated metaphysical statement. On scientific ground, it is just one of the possible interpretations of data gathered by neuroscientists.

[@mrbwatson8081]

So what am I if I am witnessing my mind…?

[@kamillachanysheva6464]

I know this video and your comment are old, But this topic recently got the residency in my head 😅 I absolutely agree with you. And that’s why one(or 10) question is bothering me so much right now. Where and how this information come and go? How can it disappear when we die, or if our hard disk was damaged and destroyed ? Nothing disappears in this world - only changing the form. And the other one - our brains are computers, but how did we get the OS? Who wrote it? So information is like a… I don’t know the “devil”? Like the cursed apple from the Bible? And Love is “God”? Balance ruined - we start wars and develop technologies. That’s not about religions, it’s something I want to know - what exactly IS Information, why we can’t see it, where it comes from? Where does it go if it can’t disappear? Can matter transform into info (what if black holes are exactly the processes of that transformation?) ? Why so many philosophers and religions from different ages get the same ideas but interpret them so differently? I just think if nothing can disappear in this world physically, then nothing can be created. Information is here and there - we only got a little access to it. We don’t create ideas - computers can’t create - we receive, we interpret, and we communicate/pass/spread..

[@manojzenith6013]

😂yp😢.

[@monicazimmerman1984]

My undergrad is in Educational Studies. I also studied some developmental psychology. I'm looking at information with linguistics and logic as a foundation, I believe that information is communicated through semantics. People are responsible for conveying information. Computers and machines also do that job too. Without people, computers and machines wouldn't be able to convey information.

[@solaokusanya955]

But let's be clear on something...see the problem is rather subjective than objective...every thing we find hard to explicitly explain I beleive is probabaly in the higher dimensions...it's like an onion,..there is more to life than the observers, . The information that makes us identify the information of what we observe...we are part of the information too..it's likes ventriloquist who feels he doesn't have another ventriloquist's hands shoved under his but, but he has his own hands shoved up the puppet's.. Maybe this is where the concept " God" and everything metaphysical came to being, to help man make sense of this, that we know is there, but can't seem to phantom.. Information is contextual.. However , I feel we can all see and use it the way we seem fit, within the confines of the context

[@olympiavictoria]

Thank you for this video! Greetings from Norway😊

[@Athenas_Realm_System]

I am a neuroinformatician however on a personal basis I subscribe to the definition physicist who are proponents of "digital physics" which thinks of the universe in terms of a natural or artificial computer process and define all distinction between things whether noise, misinformation, or something correct, they believe information can't be destroyed which lead to stuff like the holographic principal to deal with the information paradox with prevous models of blackholes and that information is elementary even more so than energy and particles which are just manifestation of distinction. I view this definition of information as the root definition and all definitions are steming from this root and are defined within the lens of context.

[@colt4505]

Princess Haley Praesent ...wat?

[@tekeek]

Excellent presentation. As that quote goes "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" then one could say "A book about Tree types with no one around to read it, is not information or is it?". Information is only information if someone needs or wants to understand when, where, who, and how!

[@tekeek]

Is data information or does data make up information! If data makes up information does that make data bits/pieces of information! If data is bits/pieces does that make it metadata! If we hear, see, smell, taste, or touch does that translate into data/information! Feel free to delete or let me know...I am just throwing out random thoughts on this topic as I process all of the responses here in the comments, video and from www.quora.com/What-is-information

[@tekeek]

note: more random thinking. feel free to comment. Is the cookie actually a cookie? Is the cookie delicious factual? Stacks & Facts: First, there is the idea of truthfulness: information is factual. If I tell you that this is a cookie [while holding a cookie], that is information. If I tell you it is a cake, that is misinformation… Or at least, about this cookie... Cookie Monster: [eating an object] OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM [smacking of lips]. And now me give you information about cookie. And the information is cookie was delicious. So if "information is factual" one could say that the "information is cookie was delicious" is not factual therefore this is misinformation; I might think it tastes bad. Additionally, how do we know that object Peter is holding is a cookie? In some cultures, it is referred to as a biscuit. So could information just be aboutness and thingness or does it have to be truthfulness, aboutness, and thingness to be information!

[@annefranciachavez1815]

Thank you for this. I am from the Philippines and I got my Bachelor of Library and Information Science degree last year during pandemy. Hopefully will be able to start MLIS soon. ♡

[@mowastudios]

Thank You for this. Your work is helping me in my MLIS path.

[@mowastudios]

Update, I just got accepted into my MLIS program!

[@StacksFacts]

Hey, way to go!

[@SorbetCitron17]

I went to a murder party in a library. I always felt I could find the information I was searching for during my studies (except periodics), here I was with my symptoms, surrounded by first years finding every codes and cyphers for the murder party. Meanwhile, I was searching the trashcans (I actually found the plans the organisators had thrown away). It made me feel inadequate and I have almost not gone in a library in 8 years. Murder indeed.

[@ambiguism]

Extremely well done cookie metonym

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

Suppose you collected data for years or decades on rainfall, and catalogued it based on day of the week. Then you could analyze that data and find out what the rainiest day of the week is. You could make a little graph, and it would be backed up by carefully researched statistical data. The weatherman could use the graph to tell everybody when to bring an umbrella with them. I guess there's many ways to consider what is information and what is not... this is just my favorite angle. Don't get too caught up in the weather, folks.

[@fixie]

Omg rebranded, love it!

[@stephaniehammond4687]

Great explanation guys 😘😘❤️

[@estherwanjama9011]

Thankyou for this its very helpful to me.

[@paulidin]

Loved your use of gifs and casual Chinese quoting!

[@KathyTrithardt]

Paul Roth I mean, if I spoke another language, I'd try to bust out that skill as often as possible. Sadly, the way I was taught French is school made me all too eager to not continue using it.

[@paulidin]

Je comprende.

[@ekkinalli]

er u velmenni?

[@allnamesoneforall9774]

Information always has a giver and resever Good 👍

[@StacksFacts]

👍

[@jeanberrios1933]

Love this content! I have a passion and a fancy for knowledge, information, data, and research. Keep going! Kepp it up!

[@StacksFacts]

Aww thank you! I shall!

[@kristinafazel8861]

@@StacksFacts😍

[@KathyTrithardt]

That poor 80's kid looked vaguely terrified when he took the box, and it was the best.

[@shan0974]

people from different backgrounds (scientist, merchants, artists etc.) process data according to their potential and knowledge where the information derived from the data varies from each other depending upon where it comes from respectively and that info is circulated around the world. so can that be the reason of how misinformation , difference in opinions are created ?

[@johnramirez5032]

Great video! I have been trying to understand many things in life. Information seems to be the key. Information is the agreed upon translation of data decoded. .. at least in my perspective. Information is a language and languages are how we interpret life as i understand it. There are lots of was to understand what i percieve as reality. I think reality is the most important thing i/we want to achieve threw living. We do that threw understanding . Threw our understanding of mathamatics whiich is the language of classical science is one way. So im thinking that all the ways we have developed to understand reality are all variations of reality explained. Or at least our attempts understand what life is. I know i jumped back and forth between i and we and our but i did so because i wanted to convey that knowledge or language or reality holds no reason to exist unless shared. It is what makes us human and not a rock. Although a rock hold information that makes it a rock it is not human. Let me know what you think about my comments please....if you would.,could or can. I have to go stare off into space now my brain just melted.

[@erickhaynie3708]

Talented presentation-great vid. “Find meaning according to context” sounds like phenomenology. But does information exist beyond its medium? Surely it does, as information has causal impact in the material world. But where does information exist? Only in our consciousness? But if so, how is it causally impactful in the material world?

[@chidieberejoyce4380]

Information is direct

[@solaokusanya955]

"Context".. I don't have a nobel prize , but personally, I feel information is intrinsic.. What we unanimously make out of something reflects our commoness has human beings.... There is a threshold somewhere beyond us out of which humans and our environment emanates from such that when we interact with it, it forms a "whole", which might not be or might be spontaneous... I thought about this off the bat...

[@solaokusanya955]

Thanks.,but I am more curious about what you see to it..plus, I would like us to connect, please...

[@PTYLEA_]

It is actually ice for YOUR information🤓☝🏾

[@DSMWannabeLinguist]

That “OOPS” edit is my permanent mood.

[@nicolenew1708]

THANK YOU

[@gabeheartz13saravia97]

I like to think information is a property of matter and energy that describe the basic structure, qualities and quantities of an object Consciousness replicates information, the consciousness I believe is organized form of biological energy, Whether the psyche dies after the body dies or a part of reality peserves or records consciousness After death is a mystery

[@MetaphysicalAxiom]

Information = structure.. be it temporary or in constant flux. If there is no structure; then there are merely the building blocks of information.. the bits. Bits are also information but with no context. The bits make up a Higgs field of which becomes the pressure factor of other more complex structures/information emerge... I am in the process of forming some of this into wisdom.

[@chad969]

How do you spell the last name of this Robert fella? Losey? Lowsy? Losi? And do you have the name of the paper of his that you referenced?

[@StacksFacts]

See description!

[@seanoleary5967]

Peter thanks for the videos. I hope you make many more. I really enjoy them. You do a great job.

[@StacksFacts]

AWWWW thanks. ^_^ New one up about Metadata!

[@tekeek]

What books do you recommend for people that may want to pursue MLIS or just want to have a foundation of LIS? e.g. What books did you have to refer to during your course in MLIS!

[@StacksFacts]

Here's a video for exactly that! kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHmYaH9ueLWInrs

[@tekeek]

@@StacksFacts Thanks!

[@mufradhossain8883]

Great. Loved it.

[@Leylani333]

Is fiction information then?

[@jasonraatz3310]

Very helpful, Keep it coming!

[@KathyTrithardt]

That thumbnail, tho 👌

[@KathyTrithardt]

Tehehe flash of Anthony Stewart Head.

[@StacksFacts]

A dancing demon... no, something isn't right there.

[@KathyTrithardt]

Stacks & Facts Some kid is dreamin' and we're all stuck inside his wacky Broadway nightmare.

[@kiranjotdhillon7478]

mast

[@PRprdee-vr2sh]

❤

[@hopaideia]

Cookie monster and Big Bird

[@theme8633]

Being a phychologist your mumbling of random words is information about you how you cramp up the unexplained fellings in random words

[@JonathanDoria-wo1jb]

0:13

[@LloydTucker-r7v]

1:10 through 1:20 😂😆🤣

[@benjaminchen8857]

excellent Chinese pronunciation

[@StacksFacts]

+Benjamin Chen aw thanks ^-^

[@Goober-5-p4p]

But this is information

[@ronbobo4857]

Aw don't be mean to cookie monster ?haha

[@AsadKhan-kv3jk]

Asad Ali

[@reneamartin1061]

See susan

[@averagejohnson3985]

Charlie Hebdo???

[@StacksFacts]

Charlie Hebdo!!!

[@josephekowcoleman8550]

I'M A MOVIE ACTRESS AND I NEED HOLP FROM YOU

[@MetaphysicalAxiom]

I am Knivens McTwisp,.. so I only eat carrot cakes. heh heh