Information is everywhere. Internet, speech, dna. One can argue that each of these is necessarily encoded. Can information be unencoded/decoded?
I don’t understand what you mean. Could you explain with an example?
Your information, I have to say, and then it turns out that it is true.
Sure. I am reading our response (encoded in english). My brain processes/understands/decodes this message. Someone else might not understand English, and is therefore incapable of decoding my question and your response. This nature of ‘encoding’ can be applied to the cells in my brain that are processing this information, as well as the cells thats are remembering it. Another person might not have advanced knowledge of how the brain works, and this person could not understand/identify the thought in my brain. One could argue that my question and your response are not inherently comprehensible.
My original question is poorly worded. Perhaps a better question is 'can information exist in a purely unencoded/decoded state ? '. I understand that these terms can have different pedantic/semantic meanings - i can only hope my question is being accurately understood.
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I’d say yeah… but wouldn’t the information/knowledge when interpreted be subjective to whoever is interpreting it?
Are you meaning all knowledge/information or just what is in the brain?
I think we can say that information is always information about something; it informs us about something. Consequently it must have a form that make us possible to use it. It must contain something about us too: it must be encoded for us.
Maybe you mean that the content of a message is something else, more universal than its decoded form? I still think that it originates from a decoded information which is unique to you.
If you continue with metaphysical thinking of what the pure information - as ultimately universal as it would be same to every receiver whatsoever - would be, you’ll end to Kantian noumenon.