Dear Steven,
I would certainly not specify "meaning" as behavior, but consider it as an
operation internal to a system of reference. My research question in the
mentioned paper is how discursive knowledge can be considered as a further
codification in the communication of meaning ("a meaning that
Dear Steven,
I would certainly not specify "meaning" as behavior, but consider it as an
operation internal to a system of reference. My research question in the
mentioned paper is how discursive knowledge can be considered as a further
codification in the communication of meaning ("a meaning that
This is an interesting question. What is the meaning of meaning? I would
define as something like "the affects of perception on a perceiving system".
Once a system has been affected it might change its behavior, but I would
hesitate to equate a behavioral response directly to the meaning of a
per
There is a lot of concept overloading in the community involving the term
"meaning." So it would help me if you and Antony could just give a one sentence
definition of the term. For example, for me:
meaning = the behavior that is the product of apprehending a sign.
Which is an extreme
Dear colleagues,
Some of you may be interested in this context in my forthcoming article “
"Meaning" as a sociological concept: A review of the modeling, mapping, and
simulation of the communication of knowledge and meaning, Social Science
Information 50(3-4) (2011) 1-23. In preprint availab
Hello FIS,
On mentioning of Braitenberg’s book “Information - der Geist in der Natur”,
Søren Brier made me aware of an older work in a similar spirit -
Danish physicist’s Hans Christian Ørsted’s (1777-1851) “The soul in nature”,
here digitalized by Google:
http://www.archive.org/stream/soulinnat
Title: Re: [Fis] meaningful inforamtion
Hi Pedro and Anthony,
Valentino Braitenberg has a book out this year in German: Information - der Geist in der Natur
My knowledge of German is dismal, but it seems to be about information as the "spirit" or "mind" of nature. This would be consistent with
Thanks, Anthony, for the info on your book. As you will see during
future discussion sessions (currently we are in the vacation pause) some
parties in this list maintain positions not far away from your own
views. In our archive you can check accumulated mails about the matter
you propose --e.g
