Dear Soren,
It is very strange for me to read yours as usual very learned text,
because your understanding of what it is I am trying to do is so different
from my own understanding. Though I have had great pleasure of reading you
works over the years I am not sure that you have read much of mine.
I read quite a bit of your texts, but I may have misunderstood. In that
case, I apologize.
Non-biologist usually underestimate the complexity of biological processes.
I agree.
I do not know what you mean when you write about semiotics that its:
status is not different from a methodology or a mathematical theory of
communication? You seem to assume some postulate from me that is not
explicit in the text.
I formulated (quote):
A mathematical theory of information (e.g., Shannon) enables us to
entertain models that one can use from one level to another, for testing
hypothesis. These models may come from biology (e.g. Lotka-Volterra),
engineering (anticipatory systems; Dubois), complex systems theory (Simon,
Ashby), etc. For example: can interactions among codes be modeled using
Lotka-Volterra? (Ivanova &Leydesdorff, 2014; in Scientometrics). The math is
not meta, but epi because the other domains can also be considered as
specific domains of communication. Maturana, for example, argues that a
biology is generated whenever molecules can be communicated (as more complex
than atoms exchanged in a chemistry).
3. But of cause if you deny the central idea in systems theory and
especially Luhmanns triple autopoietic theory of closed communication
systems, which I have accepted but want to put into a semiotic, pragmaticist
methodology and metaphysical framework, then of cause we do not speak the
same language at all and may be in a situation of incommensurability.
I am not so sure that inter-human communications are closed in terms of
codes being unambiguous. It seems to me that differently coded
communications can always be translated more or less. Luhmann is often too
apodictic. For example, his notion of truth as the code for scholarly
communication seems not to hold empirically.
Lets enjoy the communication. I am sorry if I offended you.
Best,
Loet
It is my feeling that you do not see what I see and attempts to communicate
and that you project postulates from scientistic researcher onto my theory
blocking you from seeing what it is I want to communicate. So I do not know
if we disagree because that demands some mutual level of understanding.
Best
Søren
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