Re: [Fis] Shannon-Weavers' Levels A, B, C.

2015-10-15 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Marcus, Mark, Bob, and colleagues, My ambition was a bit more modest: the paper does not contain a theory of meaning or a theory of everything. It is an attempt to solve a problem in the relation between sociology (i.c. Luhmann) focusing on meaning processing (and autopoiesis) and

Re: [Fis] Mark Johnson. Less is more

2015-10-15 Thread Joseph Brenner
Dear Mark, I find much novelty in your interesting approach as I read your note of October 1 and this one. This novelty should not be lost by imposing standard patterns of interpretation on it. If we really believe "it's time we confess in science just how little we know about language, that

Re: [Fis] Shannon-Weavers' Levels A, B, C.

2015-10-15 Thread Bob Logan
Dear Loet - I agree with your remarks: "Bob and his colleagues define information (2008; p. 28) as “natural selection assembling the very constraints on the release of energy that then constitutes work and the propagation of organization.” This may have meaning in a biological framework, in