# Information Structure **Domain:** Linguistics / Communication **Doc Type:** Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Functional Sentence Perspective]], [[Vilém Mathesius]], [[Attention Mechanism]], [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] ## Definition Information structure concerns how utterances organize given and new information, topic, focus and communicative prominence. ## Corpus Context It connects the Prague linguistic tradition to the noncausal comparison with relevance-weighted sequence processing. ## Backlinks - [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] - [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "Rather, the brain of all mammals incorporates a long-distance information sharing system that breaks the modularity of brain areas and allows them to broadcast information globally." > **— Stanislas Dehaene**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Information/Mammalian Brains Broadcast Information Globally by Stanislas Dehaene|Mammalian Brains Broadcast Information Globally by Stanislas Dehaene]] > "But the true role of data is to confirm which answers are the correct ones. If some physicist, or some machine, figures it out they have no way to convince anyone else they have the actual answer." > **— Gordon Kane**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Information/Thinking Cannot Replace Experimental Evidence by Gordon Kane|Thinking Cannot Replace Experimental Evidence by Gordon Kane]]