Quote:"Meaning" I would define as the ability of the text to convey information.
No that's definitely not a good approach. "Meaning" should be tied to something human, i.e. meaning is always subjective.
It's exactly because of that difficulty with agreeing upon the meaning of "meaning" that I proposed to go the other way around and to discuss "meaninglessness" instead - by way of substituting "schematic" text generation for the notion of "meaninglessness". There is certainly a bit of sophistry in that, but actually that's what people mean. When they discuss the meaninglessness of the VMS, they effectively argue some procedure of text generation - like grilles (Rugg), auto-copying (Timm), or state transition probability tables (Fisk).