Here is more: Information vs. Meaning

Kolmogorov-Chaitin information theory is focused on quantification - that is, on being able to measure the quantity of information in a string of characters. It doesn't care what the string means. Information theory cares about how much information is in a string; it doesn't care what the string means. In fact, you can say something much stronger about information theory: if you consider meaning at all, then you're not doing information theory. A truly abstract string could mean many different things: information theory's measurement of its information content must include everything that could be used relative to any possible system of meaning to determine the information content of a string.