>> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Edwina Taborsky [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sun 14/07/19 1:44 PM >> Subject: Fwd: The functionality of Peircean semiosis >> >> As is well-known, my focus is on the functionality of Peircean semiosis; >> that is, how its basic axioms and infrastructure can describe, analyze and >> explain ourselves and our world. >> >> The basic axioms, as I see it, are the three categorical modes of Firstness, >> Secondness and Thirdness with their variations: 1-1, 2-2, 2-1; 3-3, 3-2, >> 3-1; and the six-point semiosic process of DO-IO-R-II-DI-FI. This is >> actually a very complex infrastructure that enables many diverse >> interactions and modes-of-existence. >> >> These set up our physico-chemical, biological and societal realms into >> different morphologies or 'existential realities' which function within >> interactive networks as CAS; as complex adaptive systems. >> >> My analysis is that a basic requirement for our world as we experience it >> is: the 'ontological cut' [see also Heisenberg cut; see Harald >> Atmanspacher: Cartesian Cut, Heisenberg cut, and the Concept of Complexity" >> Journal of New Paradigm Research Vol 49, 1997; 333-355]. This sets up a >> differentiation between a 'unit of existentiality' and the external world. >> Peirce outlines this in his ontological outline of the emergence of >> particulate matter [Secondness] in 1.412. This sets up the internal vs >> external processes and interactions [1-1; 2-2; 2-1] >> >> And at the same time, there is an 'epistemological cut' which sets up the >> ongoing development and functionality of informational processes and >> knowledge [Thirdness]. The epistemological cut differentiates between >> short-term [1-1, 3-2] and long term [3-1, 3-3] informational processes and >> habit-formation [aka knowledge]. See also 1.412. >> >> Essentially, the Peircean framework provides us with an informational system >> that includes particulate differentiation; that includes internal as well as >> external information processes; that includes short term [individual local] >> and long term [communal non-local] information actions; and random as well >> as stable informational activities. >> >> This analytic framework, I suggest, can be used to describe and analyze all >> complex adaptive systems. For one example - take speciation of the >> progressive movement to diversity and complexity -- for example, plant >> speciation where plants evolve barriers to genetic exchange between >> previously interbreeding populations. That is, informational stimuli from >> such external agents as changes in an external pollinator and/or habitat [[a >> semiosic interaction] promotes adaptive divergence in local areas. That is, >> 'small networks' or local semiosic networks' can promote rapid adaptive and >> evolutionary changes that are confined to a local area. >> >> It is interesting to explore this 'small network semiosis' in the >> development of human neighbourhoods, linguistic variations and ethnicities. >> Questions would also include the nature of entropic dissipation [via 1-1 and >> even 2-2]; the nature of stability-inducing forces [3-1, 2-1]. >> >> As noted - I think that this basic analytic infrastructure as developed by >> Peirce - is THE powerful semiosic analytic tool - and wish more use would be >> made of it! >> >> Edwina >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
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