FW: [PEIRCE-L] book launching: Turning Signs

[Christophe]

Congatulations Gary, and thanks for making the content available to us. 
Your question « How do you mean what you read or say,
or do? (Or does it all mean you?) » is indeed central.  
Just went through chpts 4  (meaning and
modeling, modeling of meaning) and was kind of surprised not to find much on
the Interpreter which is for me key relatively to meaning generation in
the Peircean approach. Perhaps you could tell more on this ?

You may remenber of a
system/evolutionary modeling of meaning generation presented at Peirce-l years 
ago where meaning is generated by a system submitted to an internal constraint 
that has to be satisfied (like "stay alive" for animals, and "look for 
happiness" or  "limit anxiety" for humans). There is now more on that subject 
in a book
chapter ( http:/philpapers.org/rec/MENCOI). 
Regarding humans (your question), meaning generation remains a  complex & 
difficult subject because performances like self-consciousness and free-will
have to be taken into account. It is then necessary (I feel) to look at a 
possible nature of human mind to access the content of human constraints 
(introduced in book chapter). Best,
ChristopheFrom: g...@gnusystems.ca
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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 08:44:10 -0400
Subject: [PEIRCE-L] book launching: Turning Signs

Hello friends (and all Peirceans), For some time now I've been threatening to 
publish a book called Turning Signs, and now I've finally done it. You're 
invited to have a look by visiting the online launch 
site:http://gnusystems.ca/wp/That takes you to my newly recreated blog, 
intimologies, where you'll find links to the book itself, which is the fruit of 
a 15-year inquiry into the meaning of life (or as i prefer to call it, the 
ecology of meaning). You're welcome to read as far into it as you like, to 
bookmark it with your browser or add it to your reading list, even to pay for 
it when and if you feel that step is justified.  As you might guess from the 
title, there’s plenty of Peircean semiotics in it, but it’s not intended as a 
contribution to Peirce scholarship; it’s more a cenoscopic essay. But you may 
find it interesting as a weaving of Peircean ideas (and texts) into that 
broader context. Anyway i hope you enjoy it, and thanks for your attention! 
Gary F. } Diversity is the health of ecosystems. [Roszak] 
{http://gnusystems.ca/wp/ }{ intimologies and Turning Signs 
 

  
  
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Re: [PEIRCE-L] book launching: Turning Signs

[Anny Ballardini]

Ditto, congratulations. What I lament is the black background, terrible for
your eyes...

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 2:44 PM,  wrote:

> Hello friends (and all Peirceans),
>
>
>
> For some time now I've been threatening to publish a book called *Turning
> Signs*, and now I've finally done it. You're invited to have a look by
> visiting the online launch site:
>
> http://gnusystems.ca/wp/
>
> That takes you to my newly recreated blog, *intimologies*, where you'll
> find links to the book itself, which is the fruit of a 15-year inquiry into
> the meaning of life (or as i prefer to call it, the ecology of meaning).
> You're welcome to read as far into it as you like, to bookmark it with your
> browser or add it to your reading list, even to pay for it when and if you
> feel that step is justified.
>
>
>
> As you might guess from the title, there’s plenty of Peircean semiotics in
> it, but it’s not intended as a contribution to Peirce scholarship; it’s
> more a cenoscopic essay. But you may find it interesting as a weaving of
> Peircean ideas (and texts) into that broader context.
>
>
>
> Anyway i hope you enjoy it, and thanks for your attention!
>
>
>
> Gary F.
>
>
>
> } Diversity is the health of ecosystems. [Roszak] {
>
> http://gnusystems.ca/wp/ }{ intimologies and *Turning Signs*
>
>
>
>
>
>
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
Friedrich Nietzsche

« Stulta est clementia, cum tot ubique
vatibus occurras, periturae parcere chartae »
Giovenale

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RE: [PEIRCE-L] book launching: Turning Signs

[gnox]

Anny, Christophe, list,

 

Christophe, the my answers to the questions you raise are all in the book, so I 
won’t repeat or paraphrase them here. I should point out though that the book 
(i.e. the Obverse side) is not well suited to browsing, as the argument 
develops continuously from Chapter 1 to 19, and reading one out of context is 
not likely to be useful to anyone, I think.

 

Thanks Anny. Actually it’s the customary white background that’s bad for your 
eyes, or at least for mine … and mine need all the help they can get, these 
days, so that’s why I went with white text on black (years ago). But it’s not 
too hard to reverse the colors in your browser (depending on what platform 
you’re using), if you want to read it with that.

 

Gary F.

 

From: Anny Ballardini [mailto:anny.ballard...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 6-Sep-15 15:53
To: Gary Fuhrman 
Cc: Peirce-L 
Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] book launching: Turning Signs

 

Ditto, congratulations. What I lament is the black background, terrible for 
your eyes... 

 

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 2:44 PM,  
> wrote:

Hello friends (and all Peirceans),

 

For some time now I've been threatening to publish a book called Turning Signs, 
and now I've finally done it. You're invited to have a look by visiting the 
online launch site:

  http://gnusystems.ca/wp/

That takes you to my newly recreated blog, intimologies, where you'll find 
links to the book itself, which is the fruit of a 15-year inquiry into the 
meaning of life (or as i prefer to call it, the ecology of meaning). You're 
welcome to read as far into it as you like, to bookmark it with your browser or 
add it to your reading list, even to pay for it when and if you feel that step 
is justified. 

 

As you might guess from the title, there’s plenty of Peircean semiotics in it, 
but it’s not intended as a contribution to Peirce scholarship; it’s more a 
cenoscopic essay. But you may find it interesting as a weaving of Peircean 
ideas (and texts) into that broader context.

 

Anyway i hope you enjoy it, and thanks for your attention!

 

Gary F.

 

} Diversity is the health of ecosystems. [Roszak] {

  http://gnusystems.ca/wp/ }{ intimologies and 
Turning Signs

 

 



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http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html

I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
Friedrich Nietzsche

« Stulta est clementia, cum tot ubique
vatibus occurras, periturae parcere chartae »
Giovenale

Professionista di cui alla Legge n. 4 del 14 gennaio 2013, pubblicata nella GU 
n. 22 del 26/01/2013

Freiberuflerin laut Gesetz Nr. 4 vom 14. Jänner 2013, veröffentlicht im 
Amtsblatt Nr. 22 vom 26.1.2013


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[PEIRCE-L] book launching: Turning Signs

[gnox]

Hello friends (and all Peirceans),

 

For some time now I've been threatening to publish a book called Turning Signs, 
and now I've finally done it. You're invited to have a look by visiting the 
online launch site:

http://gnusystems.ca/wp/

That takes you to my newly recreated blog, intimologies, where you'll find 
links to the book itself, which is the fruit of a 15-year inquiry into the 
meaning of life (or as i prefer to call it, the ecology of meaning). You're 
welcome to read as far into it as you like, to bookmark it with your browser or 
add it to your reading list, even to pay for it when and if you feel that step 
is justified. 

 

As you might guess from the title, there’s plenty of Peircean semiotics in it, 
but it’s not intended as a contribution to Peirce scholarship; it’s more a 
cenoscopic essay. But you may find it interesting as a weaving of Peircean 
ideas (and texts) into that broader context.

 

Anyway i hope you enjoy it, and thanks for your attention!

 

Gary F.

 

} Diversity is the health of ecosystems. [Roszak] {

http://gnusystems.ca/wp/ }{ intimologies and Turning Signs

 

 


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SV: [PEIRCE-L] book launching: Turning Signs

[Søren Brier]

Congratulations for getting there after all those years and hard work. Look 
forward to read it.

Best
   Søren

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Hello friends (and all Peirceans),

For some time now I've been threatening to publish a book called Turning Signs, 
and now I've finally done it. You're invited to have a look by visiting the 
online launch site:
http://gnusystems.ca/wp/
That takes you to my newly recreated blog, intimologies, where you'll find 
links to the book itself, which is the fruit of a 15-year inquiry into the 
meaning of life (or as i prefer to call it, the ecology of meaning). You're 
welcome to read as far into it as you like, to bookmark it with your browser or 
add it to your reading list, even to pay for it when and if you feel that step 
is justified.

As you might guess from the title, there’s plenty of Peircean semiotics in it, 
but it’s not intended as a contribution to Peirce scholarship; it’s more a 
cenoscopic essay. But you may find it interesting as a weaving of Peircean 
ideas (and texts) into that broader context.

Anyway i hope you enjoy it, and thanks for your attention!

Gary F.

} Diversity is the health of ecosystems. [Roszak] {
http://gnusystems.ca/wp/ }{ intimologies and Turning Signs



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[PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:8857] Re: Can crystals think ?

[Sungchul Ji]

Helmut, Stan, lists,

(*1)*  I agree. The structural hierarchy shown in Figure 1 is both
*compositional* and *subsumptive*.  "Compositional" can mean either
reductive or reductionistic (top-down) or constructive or synthetic
(bottom-up), and "subsumptive" can mean emergent (bottom-up) or
supervenient (top-down). It may well be that these various names mean
little unless their associated *mechanisms *of *organization *are specified*,
*of which there are almost infinite number, just as there are almost
infinite number of organizations (both as types and as tokens) in the
Universe.


 *Societies* (Languages, sciences, technologies, arts, religions;
SOCIOLOGY) ^
|
   * Brains* (Self-replication with variations, symbolic;
PSYCHOLOGY)
^
|
*Cells* (Life, or the highly condensed form of information [3];
 BIOLOGY)
^
|
*Molecules* (Catalysis of chemical reactions;  CHEMISTRY)
^
|
   *Atoms*  (Crystals; PHYSICS)

Figure 1. Five levels of material ORGANIZATION with associated EMERGENT
properties.
The bottom-up direction = *COMPOSITIONAL HIERARCHY*
The top-down direction  = *SUBSUMPTION HIERARCHY *[1] (?)
Reproduced from   [biosemiotics:8854].


(*2*) I think the type-token distinction applies to each level of Figure
1.  For example, the atom is a type and the hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen etc.
atoms are tokens.  The society is a type, but the American society, the
Nigerian society, the Korean society, etc. are tokens.

(*3*)  Again, I would like to emphasize that Figure 1 embodies the
'principle of the emergence-invariance complementarity'  first discussed in
the PEIRCE-L list on 9/1/2015.  The principle of ORGANIZATION (PO) (i.e.,
the material arrangement in space and time driven by free energy
dissipation) applies to atoms to molecules to cells to brains to the
cosmos.  It seems to me that the principle of organization is consistent
with Peircean *synechism*.  Here Organization may be viewed as a type
 which contains many tokens, each distinguished by individual mechanisms of
organization (perhaps this is what Helmut meant above ?):

(i) Atoms = organized systems of electrons, protons and neutrons connected
by strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces,
(ii) Molecules = organized systems of atoms connected by chemical bonds,
(iii) Cells = organized systems of molecules interacting through shape
complementarity [1],
(iv) Brains = organized systems of neurons and other cells through
intercellular interactions mediated by electromagnetic and concentration
waves, and
(v) Societies = organized systems of individuals interacting through
linguistic (e.g., sound waves), visual (i.e., elecromagnetic waves), and
tactile communications.

(*4*) Figure 1 provides fairly comprehensive examples of DISCONTINUITIES in
the Universe each characterized by a different set of EMERGENT PROPERTIES
engendered by unique *mechanisms* of organization.  Peirce discussed
CONTINUITY under the rubric of SYNECHISM.  I am not a Peirce scholar to
know whether or not Peirce also discussed DISCONTINUITY  in his writings
and, if so, whether or not he gave any name to DISCONTINUITY as he did for
CONTINUITY ?

(*5*)   I suggest that  semiosis, e.g, the *irreducibly triadic process* of
transferring meaning from an utterer to a hearer mediated by a sign, is a
form of organization, i.e., a form of organized processes. Since
irreducible triadic processes can occur in atomic systems as they can in
molecular systems (e.g., the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction), it may be
justified to conclude that semiosis is another *scale-invariant *(i.e.,
regardless of scale) *universal principle* applicable to the structural
hierarchy shown in Figure 1.

(*6*) If there is a *scale-invariant semiosis *(as indicated in (5)), there
must be "*scale-dependent semiosis*" as well, according to the Yin-Yang
doctrine of the Daoist philosophy and the complementarity principle of Bohr
[2] as generalized in the form of complementarism in [3]. If this
conjecture is true,

*"The structural hierarchy shown in Figure 1 embodies both
  *(090615-1)
*the scale-invariant and the scale-dependent semioses." *

All the best.

Sung



References:
[1]  Ji, S. and Ciobanu, G. (2003).  Conformon-driven biopolymer shape
changes in cell modeling. *BioSystems *70:165-181.
   [2] Plotnitsky, A. (2003).  Niel Bohr and Complementarity: An
Introduction.  Springer, New York.

   [3] Ji, S. (2004).  Semiotics of Life: A Unified Theory of Molecular
Machines, Living Cells, the  Mind, Peircean Signs, and the Universe based
on the Principle of Information-Energy  Complementarity.  *Reports,  the
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistic *(Martin-Vide, C., ed.), Rovira i
Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain, pp. 1-183.  PDF at
http://www.cnformon.net under Publciaitons