As part our humanity, we attempt to make sense of our surroundings. By necessity, what we notice is only a minimal amount of phenomena to prevent overwhelming our senses and overtaxing our attention. As a result, our mental mechanisms include filtering processes to direct our attention on what it deems important at every instance. We are only aware of a minimum set that prioritizes events to give attention to only some of the signals some of our senses are receiving. The signals may be pre-coordinated, as in a face-to-face conversation where we hear words and calibrate them with the gestures, or body language. Post-coordination of signals is when the brain must couple separate and not synchronized partial channels. In both cases, the objective is to fit all the stimuli we receive within a coherent framework that explains them as a whole. This whole process is known as sense making.
Sense making and meaning construction are similar cognitive processes. Sense making is semi-internal in that it works with external stimuli. It organizes the external stimuli into a coherent entity. Construction of meaning integrates that coherent entity into a structure in memory that already exists or that is an ad hoc creation. The structure may be novel or an ontological replica of another. Meaning construction results in a greater structural entity than the interpretation of the initial collection of signals and stimuli. It is a purely internal cognitive process of integration or creation that either expands an existing structure or creates a new structure of knowledge.
Question: This sounds like data is transformed into knowledge, where is information?
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