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This is a well-known and widely used concept. We use the concepts of probability theory. Let us distinguish the different outcomes of “experiments” by an index k, e.g. when throwing a die its index k will distinguish between the numbers of eyes k = 1, 2, …, 6 or when we read a text the different letters of an alphabet are distinguished by an index k.
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Haken, H., Portugali, J. (2015). Shannonian Versus Semantic Information and Cognition. In: Information Adaptation: The Interplay Between Shannon Information and Semantic Information in Cognition. SpringerBriefs in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11170-4_1
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