Information

Information

Origin:

1350–1400; Middle English: instruction, teaching, a forming of the mind < Medieval Latin, Latin: idea, conception. See inform-ation

Inform

Origin:

1275–1325; Middle English informen < Latin infōrmāre to form, shape, equivalent to in- in-2 + fōrmāre to form; replacing Middle English enfourmen < Middle French enfourmer < Latin, as above

Explanation:

Origin:

1350–1400; Middle English explanacioun < Latin explānātiōn- (stem of explānātiō ), equivalent to explānāt ( us ) ( see explanate) + -iōn- -ion

Explanate:

Origin:

1375–1425; late Middle English explanen < Latin explānāre to smooth out, make intelligible, spread out on flat surface. See ex-plane

Information needs a medium, and media takes up space. The same information may be stored in different material. Information can be stored as pictograms, a set of pictograms called an alphabet is arranged into words which store language information, figures etc. this takes up 2 dimensional space, the paper or tablet (the plane in ex-planation) takes up 3 dimensional space, hence books are rectangular prisms, because even though they are 'planar' in reality they have 3 dimensions, because in reality information takes up space.

The spacial arrangement of information is important to it's meaning, although this is not fixed, it depends on the media, the spacial arrangement of alphabetical characters and words in lines matters to the meaning, the arrangement of bit-patterns in integrated circuits words matters to the meaning, the address of variables in RAM matters to the meaning, the spacial arrangement of beads on a abacus matters to the meaning, the sequence of base pairs in DNA matters to their meaning, the positions of genes matters to their meaning. the same information can be stored on an abacus, a digital computer, on a page, in a book - the same information uses space differently, but all information must use space - I assume that information stored as memories in the brain take up space to form neural connections, and patterns of interconnectedness.

In a computer it matters how we arrange data in the circuits that the computer consists of. This is called 'structuring data' - and this is fundamental to why we build databases the way we build them, the computer gives us the power to physically rearrange the data like a food processor physically rearranges food, only precisely and with complete control.

in - form - ation = FORMING of a awareness (in the mind) of some thing (in-form-ing) noteworthy (note-ice).

Note

Origin:

1175–1225; (noun) Middle English (< Old French ) < Medieval Latin nota sign for musical tone, Latin: mark, sign, lettering; (v.) Middle English noten < Old French noter to mark < Latin notāre, derivative of the noun

Notice

Origin:

1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French < Latin nōtitia a knowing, a being known, derivative of nōtus known ( see notify)

Synonyms:

1. memorandum, minute. 3. commentary, annotation. See remark. 9. bill. 10. repute, celebrity, fame, renown, name. 25. register, record. 29. see, spot, remark. 31. mention.

Know

Origin:

before 900; Middle English knowen, knawen, Old English gecnāwan; cognate with Old High German -cnāhan, Old Norse knā to know how, be able to; akin to Latin ( g ) nōvī, Greek gignṓskein. See gnostic, can1

Cognition

THE POINT IS TO TRANSFER THE DATA TO INFORM THE BRAIN. THE DATA TAKES UP SPACE AND IS ARRANGED IN SPACE ON THE COMPUTER'S CIRCUITS AND DISKS AND THEN AFTER TRANSFER IT TAKES UP SPACE IN THE BRAIN.

THE DATABASE MANAGES THE COMPUTERS INFORMATION STORAGE SPACE