Information and meaning

Entropy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 193-204

  Menant, Christophe ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Constraint; Efficiency; Generation; Information; Meaning; System

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; DATA PROCESSING; SIGNAL THEORY; TRANSMITTERS; USER INTERFACES;

CONSTRAINT; GENERATION; INFORMATION SYSTEM;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 2942729978     PISSN: 10994300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e5020193     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. C.S. Peirce (1839 - 1914) is considered as the source of the contemporary philosophical conception of semiotic - the science of signs -. Detailed information is available at Arisbe: http://members.door.net/arisbe/arisbe.htm (Arisbe, the Peirce Gateway, is a philosophical website providing coordinated access to the resources on the internet relevant to the life, work, and continuing interest in the American philosopher, scientist, and humanist Charles Sanders Peirce).
2. Gelepithis, P. A. M. Survey of Theories of Meaning. Cognitive Systems 1988, 2(2), 141-162. P. Gelepithis classifies the current theories of meaning in four categories (philosophical, linguistic, formal and biological). One conclusion is that these theories of meaning have recognized that meaning does depend on us humans.
3. A positioning of the notion of meaning in the history of Information Theory is available in J. Segal PhD Thesis 1998 (in French): Theorie de l'information: sciences, techniques et societe de la seconde guerre mondiale a l'aube du XXIe siècle. Text is in Chapt 11: La notion d'information dans l'emergence de l'unite du savoir. Internet version at: http://www.mpiwg-berlin. mpg.de/staff/segal/thesis/thesehtm/chap11/ch11_.htm.
4. A. Sharov: Biosemiotics:functional-evolutionary approach to the analysis of the sense of information. In: Sebeok, T.A., J. Umiker-Sebeok (eds.): The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics. De Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 1992, 345-373. (Internet version at: http://www.ento.vt.edu/%7Esharov/biosem/txt/biosem.html.) A. Sharov has analyzed the problem of the sense of information with the help of biosemiotics. Two aspects of the sense of an information are introduced: the meaning and the value. Meaning being the semantic characteristic of the sense, and value being the pragmatic characteristic. Biosemiotics has part of it's origins in the work of J. von Uexkull (1864 - 1944) who studied the problem of how living being subjectively perceive their environment and how this perception determines their behavior (with the key notion of "Umwelt"). Umwelt has been reactualized as a support for several studies on artificial life. Biosemiotics homepage at http://www.zbi.ee/~uexkull/biosem.htm.