Information Does Not Exist? 66
Anonymous Junkie writes "Here is a piece of academic research publised in this month's 'Journal of Knowledge Research' claiming that Information Does Not Exist. The abstract is available freely online. The wording is a little too scholarly for me but it looks like a worthwhile read. I wonder what this new revelation holds for librarians and IT folks."
404 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:404 (Score:2)
Nothing exists to see here. If I existed and I thought you also existed, I'd ask you to move along.
nth Post (Score:1, Funny)
It was today, or never
Re:nth Post (Score:2)
What? What do you mean 'I missed it'? For what value of k?
If info does not exist, then logically.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Quote from slashdot (Score:1)
STOP IT!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Must....kill...slashdot....editors...
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WOAH... (Score:2)
Re:WOAH... (Score:1)
Rediculous (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Rediculous (Score:1)
yah, taco should atleast give himself 20 minutes for recoil.
Of course (Score:5, Insightful)
If Information doesn't exist... (Score:2)
Its all true... (Score:1)
Just a few more hours of Aprils Fools Day left (Score:1)
It's true (Score:3, Insightful)
In the words of Jebediah Springfield (Score:1)
It would appear that the mad trend toward embiggening words as one can has reached even the hallowed halls of tk421.net...
Dupe! (Score:2)
The one article you wouldn't have thought was possible to dupe...
The article information (Score:3)
I had a hard time pulling up the article, here is what came up after 5 minutes. I want my time back. Abstract We proffer an epistemological, ontological, and ecumenical analysis of the informatics zeitgeist surrounding librarians and so-called information scientists. A fuzzy systems tautomerism and transformative hermeneutic lexiae with stemming metadata shows that behind an axiometric normalization of mutually reinforcing moieties, institutionalized metaphors, and naïve liturgical dogmas lies nothing more than gormandized aphorisms and pseudoscientific quanta. This endemic helix permeates the koans of nacirema determinates and quidditative paradigms alike. The operationalized gestalt is collapsed, as with its photonic counterpart, via an interaction among the cromulent a priori of epiphenomenal knowledge management and the parsimonious lorem ipsum of atomistic artificial intelligence and its ilk. Neither the nascent yet positivist hyperliteracy movement nor the transactive pedagogical convergence of jingoistic multiliteracies possess the constituent wherewithal for explicating the existence of information per se or affirming the verstehende of contemporary librarianship; you can't eat your cake and have it too. Ramifications for string theory and consciousness studies are also addressed.
"Information Does Not Exist?" (Score:1)
Ba-dum-bum-tshhhh!!
I like it (Score:2)
I just hope they make as much of an effort on Talk Like a Pirate Day
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Further proof (Score:1)
Interesting postulate (Score:1)
Of course I haven't read TFA, but the concept of "Information" is pretty nebulous, as there is no absolute measure of being informed - it's purely subjective. However, "Data" does exist, and knowledge is power.. so there.
Re:Interesting postulate (Score:2)
If the article is correct... (Score:2)
Why not... (Score:3, Interesting)
o.O
is it already slashdotted? (Score:2, Interesting)
Does it mean (Score:2)
Sokal affair comparison (Score:1)
"Add to Cart" (Score:2, Funny)
Well, not that I got anything, information not existing and all, but just like religion and time, I prefer living by the old fallacies
PS: Lord Helmet?? Is that you? It's been a long time
The phone number (Score:1)
LOL (Score:1)
Seto Kaiba is from YuGiOh and Yuffie Kisaragi is from the venerable Final Fantasy VII (one of the highlights of my adolescence). I did a Google search on Jack Napier and it returned some highly questionable results. IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0621023/ [imdb.com] confirms that he is a porn star.
I'd comment, but I can't download the article..... (Score:2, Interesting)
Say that we have evidence that information does not exist. Then, it can only be expressed through information.
However, if there is evidence that information doesn't exist, then the only real explanation is that we lack the proper language to express that information. Thus, with no proper language to adequately express itself, information appears to not exist.
This reminds me of an anecdote [sdsmt.edu] about the famous mathematician G. H. Hardy [st-and.ac.uk] (it's been credited [infiltec.com] to others [anvari.org] as
Come on... (Score:1)
This actually should read... (Score:1)
Look at the authors... (Score:1)
Price of non-information (Score:1)
Hidden Reference (Score:5, Informative)
This likely comes from a classic parody scientific article "Body Ritual among the Nacirema" from American Anthropologist 58:3, June 1956, Reprinted in "A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown". Here we have an April Fool that refers to other April Fools.
I have counted 147 such references in this one abstract alone, which is over twice the old world record for an abstract based April Fool and will place
147? Not quite (Score:3, Informative)
364 days a year I send out a Library Link of the Day [tk421.net], but like CmdrTaco here, on 4/1 I have a bit of fun.
Re:147? Not quite (Score:2)
Seriously, I don't suppose you'ld be willing to mention some of the ones nobody has found yet? Or is that grist for next year's April 1st mill?
The Chebakka Defence (Score:1)
The gag appears to be up again (Score:2)
The gag itself is back up now. And it concludes with:
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