Comments on: Making Distinctions http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/03/04/making-distinctions/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:44:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nath http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/03/04/making-distinctions/comment-page-1/#comment-93141 Nath Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:24:03 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/03/04/making-distinctions/#comment-93141 I agree with the distinction you make between data, information, knowledge, understanding, wisdom and enlightenment. The last three are slightly nebulously defined, but there's an interesting a hierarchy among those six concepts. Data encodes information -- you extract the latter by processing the former. A similar relation exists between information and knowledge -- you convert information into something you store in your brain. And so forth for the other four. So, technically, data in some sense <i>contains </i> the other five, assuming you have a computer (or brain) handy that can do all the required processing and storage. I agree with the distinction you make between data, information, knowledge, understanding, wisdom and enlightenment. The last three are slightly nebulously defined, but there’s an interesting a hierarchy among those six concepts. Data encodes information — you extract the latter by processing the former. A similar relation exists between information and knowledge — you convert information into something you store in your brain. And so forth for the other four.

So, technically, data in some sense contains the other five, assuming you have a computer (or brain) handy that can do all the required processing and storage.

]]> By: Sudipta Chatterjee http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/03/04/making-distinctions/comment-page-1/#comment-93125 Sudipta Chatterjee Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:29:48 +0000 http://www.deeshaa.org/2007/03/04/making-distinctions/#comment-93125 Thanks, Atanu... that cleared up things! :) Thanks, Atanu… that cleared up things! :)

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