Ştefan Vlăduţescu: An essay on the theory of information
by Mirela Teodorescu
On the last decades, more and more scientists have been preoccupied with the manner in which we communicate: what, how, with whom and why we communicate. What are the differences between communication, information and message, what are their similarities? Is it necessary to interpret/decode the messages to reach the information? Do codes really have a role in transmitting/receiving the information? Many of the answers to these questions can be found in the book: “Information from theory to science” (Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică, Bucureşti, 2002) by Ştefan Vlăduţescu,with an excelent CV, associate Professor at the University of Craiova. He asserts: “Information much like the native language is learned in theory after we already know it. In order to learn the grammar of the native language we indubitably can assume that we are able to use the “grammar” language beforehand as the language itself we speak it already. Thus the grammar appears as a theory of the act of speaking. These features concern also the information as do any current activity. First of all, we know how to do something without a clear theoretical consciousness of it and barely after do we learn the theory such as a “learning by doing” process”.






