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What is a "fundamental" unit of meaning or conceptual atom?

It is not commensurate with brevity. If we take as an atom "freedom" or "zero" we find these units are actually more complex.

Specify, then. But how to be so without involving hundreds of units?@alanlaidlaw @Conaw
— Codex OS (@codexeditor) February 25, 2022

@brunowinck @codexeditor @alanlaidlaw When thinking about this, recall that in the second paragraph of The Mathematical Theory of Communication (University of Illinois Press, 1949), Claude Shannon explicitly separates the semantic meaning from the engineering problem of communication.