Words are just lossy compression, as is understanding.

That's why there is no difference between maximum signal, perfect encryption, and randomness.

What appears random from an outside perspective might as well be maximally informative if you have the key to decrypt it (aka make sense of it, aka understand it).

That's why any proper encryption algorithm has to produce a random string of bits, otherwise you could find a pattern and attack at. Same for compression (otherwise you could compress it further).

Words are hashes, and hashes are inherently lossy (number of possible outputs = smaller than number of all possible inputs). Consequently, making sense of lossy artifacts (decompressing them) requires "filling in the gaps", aka intelligence and creativity.

The question is how to go from that to wisdom.