Category Archives: Cybernetics

Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • Discussion 2

Posted on October 26, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Richard Coyne • Recursion Again It’s a common mistake to confound infinite with unbounded.  A process can continue without end and still be “bounded in a nutshell”.  So a sign process can pass from sign to interpretant sign to … Continue reading →

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Ontologies As Systems • Comment 1

Posted on October 5, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Joseph Simpson The reason I’ve been maintaining an interdisciplinary perspective in my postings to the Ontolog Forum, Structural Modeling, and Systems Science groups is because each one stresses a distinct but necessary aspect of a systems … Continue reading →

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Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems • Overview

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

In modeling intelligent systems, whether we are trying to understand a natural system or engineer an artificial system, there has long been a tension or trade‑off between dynamic paradigms and symbolic paradigms.  Dynamic models take their cue from physics, using … Continue reading →

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Signspiel • 1

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • John Sowa All sorts of players have given us all sorts of spiel about speech acts over the years but Peirce stands out from the chorus in giving us models of semiotic processes whose generation by triadic … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 14

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Bruce Schuman Information and optimization go hand in hand — discovering the laws or constraints naturally governing the systems in which we live is a big part of moving toward our hearts’ desires within them.  I’m … Continue reading →

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{ Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Discussion 10

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Ontolog Forum • Azamat Abdoullaev As I see it, the semiotics or theory of signs handed down by Aristotle, Augustine, the Medieval Scholastics, Locke, and others took a significant leap toward a truly scientific theory with the work of … Continue reading →

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Survey of Pragmatic Semiotic Information • 4

Posted on January 8, 2019 by Jon Awbrey

This is a Survey of previous blog and wiki posts on the Semiotic Theory Of Information.  All my projects are exploratory in essence but this line of inquiry is more open-ended than most.  The question is: What is information and how … Continue reading →

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Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • Discussion 8

Posted on December 24, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Systems Science • Len Troncale It’s been a while since I started this thread, with many sidetrips and tangents, so let me go back to the top and expand on the motivations I expressed there, addressing a few issues … Continue reading →

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Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • Discussion 7

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Systems Science • JS Let’s stand back from the picture and see how the dimensions of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics look from a pragmatic semiotic or sign relational perspective. is an object domain, a set of elements under view … Continue reading →

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Differential Logic, Dynamic Systems, Tangent Functors • Discussion 6

Posted on December 19, 2018 by Jon Awbrey

Re: Systems Science • JS A few of my readers are racing well ahead of me, exploring a range of different roads, but I’ll be making a dogged effort to stick to my math-bio-graphical narrative this time around, and try … Continue reading →

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