evidence EV-BOUNDARY-2026-01D3

Shannon formalizes reliable message transmission rather than meaning

Identifier: EV-BOUNDARY-2026-01D3
Research Area: discipline-boundary
Status: draft
Version: 0.1
Confidence: 0.9
Priority: medium
Tags: communication-theory, information-theory
Updated: 2026-07-22
Source: research/evidence/EV-BOUNDARY-2026-01D3--shannon-syntactic-transmission.md

Evidence Record

Shannon formalizes reproduction of messages across noisy channels and explicitly brackets semantic meaning from the engineering problem. This is a strong existing foundation for transmission fidelity, but it does not cover whether a software artifact causes correct human action.