title: Cybersemiotics: a transdisciplinary framework for information studies.
abstract: This paper summarizes recent attempts by this author to create a transdisciplinary, non-Cartesian and non-reductionistic framework for information studies in natural, social, and technological systems. To confront, in a scientific way, the problems of modern information technology where phenomenological man is dealing with socially constructed texts in algorithmically based digital bit-machines we need a theoretical framework spanning from physics over biology and technological design to phenomenological and social production of signification and meaning. I am working with such pragmatic theories as second order cybernetics (coupled with autopolesis theory), Lakoffs biologically oriented cognitive semantics, Peirce's triadic semiotics, and Wittgenstein's pragmatic language game theory. A coherent synthesis of these theories is what the cybersemiotic framework attempts to accomplish.
authors.affiliation: Royal School of Librarianship, Aalborg Branch, Denmark. srb@db.dk
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brier
mesh_terms: D003491:Cybernetics; D007254:Information Science; D010684:Philosophy; D012660:Semantics