ABSTRACT
According to Shannon’s diagram, information creation is essentially a speech act in which an intelligence, to advance a purpose, articulates an item of information and then broadcasts it. We obviously see this mode of creation in human speech acts. Nonetheless, speech acts, broadly construed, are able to characterize how intelligences create information quite generally. In our experience, information is created in any number of ways. Painters create information by applying dabs of paint to canvas, sculptors by chiseling away at stone, musicians by writing notes on lined sheets of paper, engineers by drawing up blueprints, etc.
