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A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world. What is missing from this theory, however, is the unification of the information and computational realms of the non-living natural and technical world. Cybersemiotics provides such a framework.
By integrating cybernetic information theory into the unique semiotic framework of C.S. Peirce, Søren Brier attempts to find a unified conceptual framework that encompasses the complex area of information, cognition, and communication science. This integration is performed through Niklas Luhmann's autopoietic systems theory of social communication. The link between cybernetics and semiotics is, further, an ethological and evolutionary theory of embodiment combined with Lakoff and Johnson's 'philosophy in the flesh.' This demands the development of a transdisciplinary philosophy of knowledge as much common sense as it is cultured in the humanities and the sciences. Such an epistemological and ontological framework is also developed in this volume.
Cybersemiotics not only builds a bridge between science and culture, it provides a framework that encompasses them both. The cybersemiotic framework offers a platform for a new level of global dialogue between knowledge systems, including a view of science that does not compete with religion but offers the possibility for mutual and fruitful exchange.
Foreword From cybernetics to cybersemiotics Marcel Danesi Danesi, Marcel
Introduction The quest of cybersemiotics 3
1 The problems of the information-processing paradigm as a candidate for a unified science of information 35
2 The self-organization of knowledge : paradigms of knowledge and their role in deciding what counts as legitimate knowledge 103
3 An ethological approach to cognition 147
4 Bateson's concept of information in light of the theory of autopoiesis 174
5 A cybersemiotic re-entry into von Foerster's construction of second-order cybernetics 207
6 Foundations of cybersemiotics 264
7 Cognitive semantics : embodied metaphors, basic level, and motivation 295
8 The cybersemiotic integration of Umweltlehre, ethology, autopoiesis theory, second-order cybernetics, and Peircean biosemiotics 312
9 An evolutionary view on threshold between semiosis and informational exchange 352
10 The cybersemiotic model of information, signification, cognition, and communication 392
11 LIS and cybersemiotics 415
12 Summing up cybersemiotics : the five-level cybersemiotic framework for the foundation of information, cognition, and communication 425
Notes 441
References 453
Index 471
Overview
A growing field of inquiry, biosemiotics is a theory of cognition and communication that unites the living and the cultural world. What is missing from this theory, however, is the unification of the information and computational realms of the non-living natural and technical world. Cybersemiotics provides such a framework.
By integrating cybernetic information theory into the unique semiotic framework of C.S. Peirce, Søren Brier attempts to find a unified conceptual framework ...