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Cybersemiotics: a reconceptualization of the foundation for information science
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In this paper, the authors have argued that neither pan-informational and pan-semiotic paradigms makes sense in isolation from the other, and the reductionistic and totalitarian paradigm in cybernetics, information science and semiotics are then abandoned.Abstract:
In the attempt to construct foundations for information science (FIS) both pan-informational and pan-semiotic paradigms have been developed. In my work I have argued that neither paradigm makes sense in isolation from the other. The reductionistic and totalitarian paradigms in cybernetics, information science and semiotics are then abandoned. Instead, paradigms of second order cybernetics and autopoiesis, on the one hand, and Peirce's semiotics on the other (understood as biosemiotics) are investigated. These are non-dualistic and have pragmatic, evolutionary, self-organizing views on systems, including their closure and cognition. Since these views are found to be second order, the necessary work is done to unite them into the non-reductionistic framework of cybersemiotics. This is suggested as a new FIS. Copyright © 2001 International Society for the Systems Sciences.read more
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An integrative semiotic framework for information systems: The social, personal and material worlds
John Mingers,Leslie P. Willcocks +1 more
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What is information? Toward a theory of information as objective and veridical
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The Paradigm of Peircean Biosemiotics
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Science as systems learning. Some reflections on the cognitive and communicational aspects of science
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Biosemiotics and the foundation of cybersemiotics: Reconceptualizing the insights of ethology, second-order cybernetics, and Peirce’s semiotics in biosemiotics to create a non-Cartesian information science
TL;DR: In this article, a cadre cybersemiotique transdisciplinaire is proposed, which permits for comprendre et de manipuler l'aspect informationnel de la nature, de la culture and of the technologie.