?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Complexity+over+Uncertainty+in+Generalized+Representational%0D%0AInformation+Theory+(GRIT)%3A+A+Structure-Sensitive+General%0D%0ATheory+of+Information&rft.creator=Vigo%2C+Professor+Ronaldo&rft.subject=Applied+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Complexity+Theory&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=What+is+information%3F+Although+researchers+have+used+the+construct+of+information+liberally+to+refer+to+pertinent+forms+of+domain-specific+knowledge%2C+relatively+few+have+attempted+to+generalize+and+standardize+the+construct.+Shannon+and+Weaver(1949)offered+the+best+known+attempt+at+a+quantitative+generalization+in+terms+of+the+number+of+discriminable+symbols+required+to+communicate+the+state+of+an+uncertain+event.+This+idea%2C+although+useful%2C+does+not+capture+the+role+that+structural+context+and+complexity+play+in+the+process+of+understanding+an+event+as+being+informative.+In+what+follows%2C+we+discuss+the+limitations+and+futility+of+any+generalization+(and+particularly%2C+Shannon%E2%80%99s)+that+is+not+based+on+the+way+that+agents+extract+patterns+from+their+environment.+More+specifically%2C+we+shall+argue+that+agent+concept+acquisition%2C+and+not+the+communication+of%0D%0Astates+of+uncertainty%2C+lie+at+the+heart+of+generalized+information%2C+and+that+the+best+way+of+characterizing+information+is+via+the+relative+gain+or+loss+in+concept+complexity+that+is+experienced+when+a+set+of+known+entities+(regardless+of+their+nature+or+domain+of+origin)+changes.+We+show+that+Representational+Information+Theory+perfectly+captures+this+crucial+aspect+of+information+and+conclude+with+the+first+generalization+of+Representational+Information+Theory+(RIT)+to+continuous+domains.&rft.publisher=MDPI&rft.date=2013-01&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F8784%2F1%2FVigo%2520%25282013%2529.pdf&rft.identifier=++Vigo%2C+Professor+Ronaldo++(2013)+Complexity+over+Uncertainty+in+Generalized+Representational+Information+Theory+(GRIT)%3A+A+Structure-Sensitive+General+Theory+of+Information.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F8784%2F