Garr’s posterous

not having seen the film, there is a reason why we need to distinguish between data, or messages, and information. only then should data be called 'information' if it eliminates relevant unknowns. if the value of information depends on it's relevance, the criteria for which immediatly becomes quite clear: existing goals, and timing. as an example of this we might think about the message 'attack at sunrise' and the different values this message can have on the evening before the attack, versus having been decoded 40 years after it. i think this is also true for the human sensory apparatuses.