Cybersemiotics : why information is not enough!
"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, Soren 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, and 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."--Jacket
xx, 477 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780802092205, 9781442626362, 0802092209, 1442626364
181078530
The problems of the information-processing paradigm as a candidate for a unified science of information
The self-organization of knowledge : paradigms of knowledge and their role in deciding what counts as legitimate knowledge
An ethological approach to cognition
Bateson's concept of information in light of the theory of autopoiesis
A cybersemiotic re-entry into von Foerster's construction of second-order cybernetics
Foundations of cybersemiotics
Cognitive semantics : embodied metaphors, basic level, and motivation
The cybersemiotic integration of Umweltlehre, ethology, autopoiesis theory, second-order cybernetics, and Peircean biosemiotics
An evolutionary view on threshold between semiosis and informational exchange
The cybersemiotic model of information, signification, cognition, and communication
LIS and cybersemiotics
Summing up cybersemiotics : the five-level cybersemiotic framework for the foundation of information, cognition, and communication
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