Comment by aerhardt
11 days ago
"When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics." - Voltaire
Like I said in another comment, I can think of a dozen statistical and computational methods where if you give me a text and its synthesis I can find a strong probabilistic link between the two.
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Someone.
Statistical correlation between text and synthesis undoubtedly exists, but capturing correlation does not imply you've encapsulated meaning itself. My point is precisely that: meaning isn't confined entirely within what we can statistically measure, though it may still be illuminated by it.