On Sunday, June 23, 2013 9:07:08 AM UTC-4, 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." >
This was how I started - seeing semiotics as the bridge between mind and matter and therefore pattern as the fundamental feature of nature. The only problem that I have with it is that pattern ultimately in nothing without a capacity for pattern recognition, aka sense. Because we have sense, (or because we *are* sense) it is easy to take patterns for granted and not factor in our own capacity to render them as a coherent experience, but to be absolutely objective about the universe, we cannot overlook ourselves and our own privacy or reduce it to unconscious interactions. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
