bblfish on Nostr: npub14euck…jvx4x For controversial or scientifically disputed topics, the position ...
npub14euckequu3krttkqcf7ru465getd52aw9wzrp95mqnchq7g6e2esrjvx4x (npub14eu…vx4x) For controversial or scientifically disputed topics, the position relative to competing theories of the actual world is in dispute. And so the different positions put forward statements that the opposition, then tries to debunk by finding inconsistencies, in the theory, or by finding facts that contradict it. This is the dialogical conception of the scientific process. It is a process of locating the actual world with respect to different theories through dialogue
Traditionally, if someone disagreed with a proposition P they could say P is false and then defend that proposition. But that is not what is happening when we speak of disinformation. Disinformation is a concept that comes with that of information. And the concept of information originates with information theory, which was about the effectiveness of sending signals over a wire. So there is something very mechanical about the notion of information which, in a way lacks semantics.
Disinformation, it seems is related to a corruption of the mechanical process of transmitting information. Perhaps by trying to make it look like information originates from a responsible news source – IE one that can be made legally responsible for what it says that is in a court of law where the dialogical process holds.
Traditionally, if someone disagreed with a proposition P they could say P is false and then defend that proposition. But that is not what is happening when we speak of disinformation. Disinformation is a concept that comes with that of information. And the concept of information originates with information theory, which was about the effectiveness of sending signals over a wire. So there is something very mechanical about the notion of information which, in a way lacks semantics.
Disinformation, it seems is related to a corruption of the mechanical process of transmitting information. Perhaps by trying to make it look like information originates from a responsible news source – IE one that can be made legally responsible for what it says that is in a court of law where the dialogical process holds.