Science is a language,
and as such, it must be shared
before messages are transmitted.

Shannon says a message needs
a transmitter, a receiver and a channel.

When we learn each other's language, we form a channel.
But we resist, a little, to infusions, or transfusions,
of meaning.

Like semi permeable membranes
Something passes, somethings stay.

http://www.smokinggun.com/projects/soundoftraffic/

As many may have noticed, digital cameras are subject to thermal noise, or pixel inversion.
Never mind the terminology.
But so are us. Subjects to noise, that is.
The darkest it gets, the more noise.
Little colored pixels, that do not fit with the picture taken.
Perhaps a red pixel surrounded by black pixels.

Try this phenomenal experiment.
Close your shades and
Stare at the darkness.

Notice those little dots that flicker and fly around your visual field.
They are detrimental to the message, the information, the picture.
Your dark room.
The darker it gets, the more noise.

Those are equivalents to your camera's thermal noise, plus your brain noise.
Scientifically, it is really hard to tell the two apart, what is brain and what is eye.
But this is not the point.

The point is that noise is defined by 'that which is not signal'.
But we can see the noise. And can call it noise.
In that it becomes a signal.
A signal that you/your eyes/your brain are subject to random flickering.
But still a signal.

That noise is signal of noise*.
In that it ceases to be noise.

What a nifty perceptual paradox.

*E.T, with a high signal to noise ratio.

http://silverbackapp.com/

Meaning plops into existence.
It does not exist latent.
Does not exist without a perceiver.

It is not discovered, it is invented.

My claim: the apparatus for distinction is product of invention, not discovery. Invention of meaning is using (or co-opting) a system to perceive and act upon it.

Sometimes, we have no eye, and no ear, for distinction.
We cannot see the chemical gradients a bacteria does.
For it, there is meaning. For us, therein none.

So, things exist that are not distinguishable.
So, things exist, which have no meaning.
Meaning is only definable with an observer.

To Illustrate, a Behavioral Ecology Story:
Beavers protect their offspring from snakes by banging their tails.
That act dispels the snake.
The beavers invented a signal: banging tail.
The snakes respond and flee.

But it turns out that, according to research, the snakes shun from the heat, not from the noise or the sight or even the vibration, that the banging tails entail.
No infra-red vision beavers, AFAWK.

Essentially, Beavers cannot know, what the snakes perceive.
The meaning just exists, because the snake flees.
Not because the snake knows, what the beaver wants.

The meaning sent is not the meaning received.
But meaning is exchanged.
The participants behave meaningfully.
According to meanings they invented.
By being what they are.

http://www.acud.de/