Lessérables: Get Rid Of Information

The interesting part with information, according to Norretranders and Johansen (1992), is to be able to get rid of it again, because information itself is boring (Norretranders and Johansen, 1992). Also how we actually get rid of information by throwing it away is similarly interesting. An example of this away throwing of information occurs in the supermarket when we are about to buy groceries; we know that each thing has its own price, which is scanned one by one, and ends up with a total amount. This amount is the result of a calculation, were many prices are put together. Norretranders and Johansen (1992) asks a rhetorical question of were in these it lays most information, the result or the calculation? In fact, there is much less information

In that context both could perfectly understand each other by only using one character. As we know now, Les Misérables was a huge success. It is not about the number of bits transferred that was important, but the context in which the communication takes place. Before the words are used, there is an awful lot of mental work, which is not said in words, but are still there. Hugos “?” is explicitly referring to some information that the publisher could only know through the reference given. Before Hugo put the question mark on the paper, he threw away lot of information, which he had in his mind. This information, which is thrown away, but still referred to explicitly is what Norretranders and Johansen calls exformation. In this sense, a statement that includes a large amount of exformation has logical depth. A skilled communicator, does not only think of himself, he or she will also think of what the recipient has in mind. Still, it is not enough that the given information explicitly refers to information in the mind of the sender, if this information in any way leads to the right association in the recipient. The meaning behind passing information is to create a state of mind in the recipient’s head, which is related to the state of mind in the head of sender, and is described by exformation it refers to in the sent