And we need to stop making a binary distinction between freedom of information laws and data protection; between open data policies and privacy policies.
IRB4 This distinction of facts vs. information highlights the different functions of each.
A classic distinction of how auditory information can be selected is whether the selection happens voluntarily (endogeneously, top-down driven) by the intention of the listener or whether it happens involuntarily (exogeneously, bottom-up driven) without the explicit intention of the subject (James, 1890; Näätänen et al., 2002).
One common way to start organizing the problem is to make a distinction between two senses of "information," or two kinds of application of informational concepts.
While classic behavioural assays cannot make the distinction between the two, this distinction is crucial in terms of information processing (see below).
Prior to in-depth analysis, it is important to note the distinction between the two types of information.
Secondly, in the early part of this discussion we will not put much emphasis on some of the finer distinctions between the concepts of information, representation, meaning, coding, and so on.
10 In the NHS some unhelpful artificial distinctions in the types of information collected have been created.
All these early media conveyed news, gossip, opinion and ideas within particular social circles or communities, with little distinction between producers and consumers of information.
