A Peircean approach to ‘information’ and its relationship with Bateson’s and Jablonka’s ideas
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A Peircean approach to ‘information’ and its relationship with Bateson’s and Jablonka’s ideas. / Queiroz, João; Emmeche, Claus; El-Hani, Charbel Niño.
In: American Journal of Semiotics, Vol. 24, No. 1-3, 2008, p. 75-94.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - A Peircean approach to ‘information’ and its relationship with Bateson’s and Jablonka’s ideas
AU - Queiroz, João
AU - Emmeche, Claus
AU - El-Hani, Charbel Niño
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - The Peircean semiotic approach to information that we developed in previous papers raises several new questions, and shows both similarities and differences with regard to other accounts of information. We do not intend to present here any exhaustive discussion about the relationships between our account and other approaches to information. Rather, our interest is mainly to address its relationship to ideas about information put forward by Gregory Bateson and Eva Jablonka. We conclude that all these authors offer quite broad concepts of information, but we argue that they are just as broad as they should be, since information is in itself a sweeping concept. Furthermore, all of them suggest a processual approach to information, which departs from the treatment of information as something that is contained in some structure (e.g., in sequences of nucleotides) and moves us towards an understanding of information as a process — in the terms of our account, a semiotic process, i.e., semiosis.
AB - The Peircean semiotic approach to information that we developed in previous papers raises several new questions, and shows both similarities and differences with regard to other accounts of information. We do not intend to present here any exhaustive discussion about the relationships between our account and other approaches to information. Rather, our interest is mainly to address its relationship to ideas about information put forward by Gregory Bateson and Eva Jablonka. We conclude that all these authors offer quite broad concepts of information, but we argue that they are just as broad as they should be, since information is in itself a sweeping concept. Furthermore, all of them suggest a processual approach to information, which departs from the treatment of information as something that is contained in some structure (e.g., in sequences of nucleotides) and moves us towards an understanding of information as a process — in the terms of our account, a semiotic process, i.e., semiosis.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 24
SP - 75
EP - 94
JO - American Journal of Semiotics
JF - American Journal of Semiotics
SN - 0277-7126
IS - 1-3
ER -
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