In reply to Odd-Job_Man.

Take extreme care how you may conflate and differentiate (or don't) the ideas of "information" and "knowledge". Also keep in mind that the mathematical/physics definition of information is wholly divorced from any semantic meanings it may have for a variety of receivers which can have dramatically different contexts which compound things.

It's very possible that the meaning you draw from it is an eisegetical one to the meaning which Eco assigns it.