Dear Pedro, Morris coined them, based on the trifold semiotic model of Peirce. As you point, I don't think Ortega's ratiovitalim can be extended to life altogether, since it is closely related to biography, history, personal reason... Its social counterpart -as you know for sure- is 'historical reason', to which he devoted a number of works. In biology, Ortega was in any case very much alligned to Aexküll, who as well influenced the work of many other philosophers of that time as Max Scheler, Heidegger, Cassirer or Merleau-Ponty... Therefore such bio-semiotic perspective is not alien at all to him, as can be seen all over his fruitful and beautiful work, but is quite different to what he meant with ratiovitalism, which is more related to Dilthey and the hermeneutical tradition.
Best regards, J.M. 2013/11/27 <fis-requ...@listas.unizar.es> > Send fis mailing list submissions to > fis@listas.unizar.es > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > fis-requ...@listas.unizar.es > > You can reach the person managing the list at > fis-ow...@listas.unizar.es > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of fis digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: social flow (Pedro C. Marijuan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:41:39 +0100 > From: "Pedro C. Marijuan" <pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es> > Subject: Re: [Fis] social flow > To: <fis@listas.unizar.es> > Message-ID: <5295cc63.4070...@aragon.es> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed > > Dear FISers, > > In some way we are taking the discussion at the fringe of relevant > fields ---communication studies, information systems, semiotics, > representation theory, linguistics, etc. If we do not like the way > communication is handled in itself, taken disconnected of the > advancement of the life cycle, and "formally"reconnected later on as > pragmatics, social understanding, cultural dimension, etc. ---what could > be the alternative? Philosophically I remember an essay of Ortega y > Gasset on "ratiovitalism", but I am not sure that his ideas can be > extended into scientific thinking, at least not easily. Communication is > a property or characteristic derived from the intrinsic openness of life > (of the life cycle), both in terms of matter and energy and of > anticipatory adjustment to "signals" from the environment. Signals do > not participate in metabolic flows, they go different. Is life's > arrangement of communication hierarchical? I do not think so, except in > a trivial sense of organisms, organs, tissues, cells, organelles, etc. > But the inner information flow goes in every conceivable "direction" top > down, bottom up, laterally, etc. Perhaps the essential achievement of > organic communication with the external has been pouring the > environmental happenstances into the same channels of the inner > self-production info flows and mixing them... Anyhow, this is clearly > insufficient to make the info flow suggestion "compete" with those > standard --anthropocentric-- categories of syntactic, semantic, > pragmatic, etc. By the way, I cannot locate clearly the scholarly origin > of those terms (widespread use in many realms, and accompanied by other > similar terms). > > best ---Pedro > > -- > ------------------------------------------------- > Pedro C. Marijuán > Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group > Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud > Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA) > Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X > 50009 Zaragoza, Spain > Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818) > pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es > http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/ > ------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > fis mailing list > fis@listas.unizar.es > https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > > > End of fis Digest, Vol 577, Issue 31 > ************************************ > > -- Dr. José María Díaz Nafría Hochschule München, Faculty of General and Interdisciplinary Studies, FK13 Postal Address: Dachauerstr 100a, 80636 München, GERMANY Universidad de León, Faculty of Education Postal address: Facultad de Educación, Campus de Vegazana s/n, 24071 León, SPAIN Coordination of BITrum Research Group (http://bitrum.unileon.es/) Coordination of Glossarium BITri (http://glossarium.bitrum.unileon.es/) Coordination of PRIMER initiative (http://primer.unileon.es) Board of Directors of Science of Information Institute (SoII, Washington, USA, http://www.soii.info/) International Society for Information Studies (ISIS, Vienna, http://www.is4is.org/) Institut für Design Science (IDS, Munich, http://www.designscience.de/) Bertalanffy Center for the Study of System Sciences (Vienna, http://www.bcsss.org/) Unified Theory of Information Research Group (UTI, Austria, http://www.uti.at/) Editorial Boards of: TripleC Journal / International Review of Information Ethics / Systems / Kybernetes Tf: HM (Germany): +49 089 1265 4301; ULE (Spain): +34 987 29 1437; +34 987 091630; +34 657 516306 Skype: José María Díaz Nafría, jnafria
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