Is knowledge the activity of compressing data?
Finding out cemeteries, repetitions, similarities and links of data is very much connected to compressing of data.
If the human brains are hardwired to find algorithms to compress data this process will lead arranging and rearranging data to form compressed pictures data.
Knowledge is the same.
Suppose our brains have a single aim that is comprising data, knowledge is the result.
Take the example of capital city of countries. London is capital of England, Paris is capital of France and Moscow is capital of Russia.
The number of elementary data is 9. With the concept of capital it is reduced to 7. So the concept is a method of compressing data.
Language is a form of data compression. However it is not a lossless data compression. When you use language you lose some data. When my wife ask me to eat she say "don't you eat" when she ask the cat the same question she say "eat". It some times confuses me. But when it happen serial times I learn to understand the difference.
This is the same thing when Wittgenstein says you can't say it but you can show it. In showing we see all the data, when you say it using a language you make a compression dropping some data.
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