On 23 Jun 2013, at 15:07, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Soren Brier, Cybersemiotics: A New Foundation for Transdisciplinary
Theory of Information, Cognition, Meaningful Communication and the
Interaction Between Nature and Culture, INTEGRAL REVIEW, June 2013,
Vol. 9, No. 2, p. 220-263.
http://integral-review.org/documents/Brier,%20Cybersemiotics,%20Vol.%209,%20No.%202.pdf
"Cybersemiotics constructs a non-reductionist framework in order to
integrate third person knowledge from the exact sciences and the
life sciences with first person knowledge described as the qualities
of feeling in humanities and second person intersubjective knowledge
of the partly linguistic communicative interactions, on which the
social and cultural aspects of reality are based. The modern view of
the universe as made through evolution in irreversible time, forces
us to view man as a product of evolution and therefore an observer
from inside the universe. This changes the way we conceptualize the
problem and the role of consciousness in nature and culture. The
theory of evolution forces us to conceive the natural and social
sciences as well as the humanities together in one theoretical
framework of unrestricted or absolute naturalism, where
consciousness as well as culture is part of nature. But the theories
of the phenomenological life world and the hermeneutics of the
meaning of communication seem to defy classical scientific
explanations. The humanities therefore send another insight the
opposite way down the evolutionary ladder, with questions like: What
is the role of consciousness, signs and meaning in the development
of our knowledge about evolution? Phenomenology and hermeneutics
show the sciences that their prerequisites are embodied living
conscious beings imbued with meaningful language and with a culture.
One can see the world view that emerges from the work of the
sciences as a reconstruction back into time of our present
ecological and evolutionary selfunderstanding as semiotic
intersubjective conscious cultural and historical creatures, but
unable to handle the aspects of meaning and conscious awareness and
therefore leaving it out of the story. Cybersemiotics proposes to
solve the dualistic paradox by starting in the middle with semiotic
cognition and communication as a basic sort of reality in which all
our knowledge is created and then suggests that knowledge develops
into four aspects of human reality: Our surrounding nature described
by the physical and chemical natural sciences, our corporality
described by the life sciences such as biology and medicine, our
inner world of subjective experience described by phenomenologically
based investigations and our social world described by the social
sciences. I call this alternative model to the positivistic
hierarchy the cybersemiotic star. The article explains the new
understanding of Wissenschaft that emerges from Peirce’s and
Luhmann’s conceptions."
I would not oppose this to "scientific classical explanation". By
doing this, Brier makes impossible to change the theories which fail,
and that can lead to the frequent means of hiding the question by a
verbal sort of hypnotism, I think.
If the current explanation does not work, we have to try to understand
why and correct it accordingly.
There are surely good ideas there, but to oppose it to science is like
cutting the branch of the tree where you seat, something like that.
It is almost like saying "we have seriously tried to solve the
problem, but we have failed, so let us try now by being non serious.
I can accept a lack of seriousness in the phenomenological reports,
and that can constitute key data, but the analyses and understanding
have to be made in the usual classical way, I think. If not, you add
bs on bs, I am afraid.
Actually he does present the current Aristotelian view like if it was
granted, which already hides the main problem.
Bruno
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