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copied!<p>Let's assume that you have found the ultimate algorithm that can provide the meaning of a text. In particular you selected a string representation, but considering your algorithm found the meaning correctly, then it can be uniquely identified by the algorithm. Right?</p> <p>So, for simplicity let's assume there is only one meaning for that particular text. In this case it is uniquely identified before the algorithm will output a phrase describing it.</p> <p>So, basically, in order to store a meaning we first need a unique identifier.</p> <p>The meaning can only exist in rapport with a subject. It is the meaning of a subject. In order for that subject to have a meaning we must know something about it. In order for a subject to have a unique meaning it must be represented unambiguously to the observer (that is the algorithm). For example the statement "2 = 3" will have the meaning of false because of standardization of mathematics symbols. But a text written in a foreign language will have no meaning for us. Neither anything that we can't understand. For example "what is the meaning of life?" </p> <p>In conclusion, in order to build an algorithm that can extract the absolute meaning from any random text, we, as humans, must first know the absolute meaning of anything. :)</p> <p>In practice, you can only extract the meaning of a known text, written in a known language, in a known format. And for this, there are tools and research in the fields of neural networks, natural language processing and so on...</p>

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