INFORMACIJE I SMISAO: POREKLO PERSPEKTIVNOG VREMENA
INFORMATION AND MEANING: TENSED TIME EMERGENCE

Summary/Abstract: In everyday usage, information can be defined as data that enhance our understanding of reality and can be measured by the extent to which it aids a recipient in achieving their goals. Valuable information is inherently practical, while irrelevant information holds no value. Here, in the context of a quantitative (mathematical) information, considerations of semantic, temporal, and spatial factors come into play. However, the main question is how environmental and quantitative information come to possess these characteristics. This paper directs its focus toward tense-related inquiries, aiming to define tenses as features that manipulate patterns of information. After introducing a difference between quantitative and semantic concepts of information, I will contend that: 1) Semantic content isn’t external to the quantitative framework, instead, it can be derived from it through data compression, pattern recognition and redundancy reduction; and 2) the quantitative framework is sufficient to unveil tense-related time as an emergent facet of the informative system, closely intertwined with its semantic content. The implication for the metaphysics of time, and for informative systems are derived in the paper.

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