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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#333333">Abstract | </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:Roboto;color:#333333">What is "information" for an organism?<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#333333">The concept of information plays a central role in theories of consciousness, and more generally cognition. Typically, a variable X in the brain is claimed to
be informative if it covaries with some other variable Y in the world. This narrow view of information is misleading, because a value cannot be informative by itself: the number 100 only becomes information once I know that it refers to the number of square
meters of my apartment, provided I know what square meters and apartments are. The first requirement is that information has a truth value: it can be true or false. In other words, information is propositional: “the winner of the election is Donald Trump”
is information, but “Donald Trump” is not information. The second requirement is that information requires an agent with knowledge. I will discuss the implications of these remarks for neuroscientific theories.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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