THE EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF DISCURSIVE KNOWLEDGE��LOET LEYDESDORFF�
Chapter 4 - Towards a Calculus of Redundancy
What’s this about, and Why? Larry Richards
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF MEANING?
LEVELS OF SIGNIFICANCE
Wisdom – most significance
Understanding – more significance
Knowledge – significance
Information – some significance
Data –no significance
LAYERS OF COMMUNICATION
Patterns of communication (paradigms, communication of communication)
Semantics (context, significance, intent, patterns of relations, i.e., correlations)
Information (relations)
REDUNDANCY
“There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistence.” Gertrude Stein
The more insistence, the more significance.
The more significance, the more meaning.
Hence, redundancy as a measure of meaning.