Cybersemiotics and the Question of Semiotic and Informational Thresholds |
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Authors: | S ren Brier |
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Affiliation: | Department of Economics and Natural Resources , Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University , Frederiksberg, Denmark |
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Abstract: | The present article discusses various suggestions for a philosophical framework for a transdisciplinary information science or a semiotic doctrine. These are: the mechanical materialistic, the pan-informational, the Luhmanian second order cybernetic approach, Peircian biosemiotics and finally the pan-semiotic approach. The limitations of each are analyzed. The conclusion is that we will not have to choose between either a cybernetic-informational or a semiotic approach. A combination of a Peircian-based biosemiotics with autopoiesis theory, second order cybernetics and information science is suggested in a five-leveled cybersemiotic framework. The five levels are 1) a level of Firstness, 2) a level of mechanical matter, energy and force as Secondness, 3) a cybernetic and thermodynamic level of information and signal, 4) a level of sign games in living systems, and 5) a level of conscious language games in self-conscious social humans. |
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Keywords: | Cybernetics System Science Foundation Of Information Science Ecosemiotics Biosemiotics Cybersemiotics Semiotic Threshold Fis Pan-semiotics Pan-information |
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