knowledge as design

“The world provides the data, to be understood as constraining affordances, and we transform them into information, like semantic engines. But such transformation or repurposing ([…]) is not equivalent to portraying, or picturing, or photographing, or photocopying anything. It is more like cooking: the dish does not represent the ingredients, it uses them to make something else out of them, yet the reality of the dish and its properties hugely depend on the reality and the properties of the ingredients. Models are not representations understood as pictures, but interpretations understood as data elaborations, of systems.” (Luciano Floridi. The Logic of Information. p. xi)