Is there really information being conveyed within a cell?

[Giltil (Gilbert Thill)]

@sfmatheson

I think that might be what @Giltil means. He’s right that a symbol need not have any connection to its meaning. Sometimes it is mission critical to keep the symbol utterly unrelated to the meaning, and you agree with that. This means that there is no inherent necessity in that relationship. If Gil (who does, in fact, make stuff up on the fly) thinks that lack of a connection is somehow part of symbolic syntax, then of course he’s just feeding us more but in this case (yeah, I’m a generous guy) I don’t think that’s what he meant. YMMV.

I would be very interested to know whether you think that Rum is right when he asserts that tree rings are symbols (see 394)?