Inquiry Into Inquiry

This is a Survey of blog posts relating to Cybernetics.  It includes the selections from Ashby’s Introduction and the comment on them I’ve posted so far, plus two series of reflections on the governance of social systems in light of cybernetic and semiotic principles.

Ashby’s Introduction to Cybernetics

• Chapter 10 • Regulation In Biological Systems
• Selections • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6) • (7) • (8) • (9) • (10)
• Discussions • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4)

• Chapter 11 • Requisite Variety
• Selections • (11) • (12) • (13)

Blog Series

• Basal Ingredients Of Society (BIOS)
• Prologue • Prescription
• Comments • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6) • (7)

• Theory and Therapy of Representations • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5)

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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 does it impact the spectrum of activities answering to the name of inquiry?

Setting out on what would become his lifelong quest to explore and explain the “Logic of Science”, C.S. Peirce pierced the veil of historical confusions obscuring the issue and fixed on what he called the “laws of information” as the key to solving the puzzle.  This was in 1865 and 1866, detailed in his lectures at Harvard University and the Lowell Institute.

Fast forward to the present and I see the Big Question as follows.  Having gone through the exercise of comparing and contrasting Peirce’s theory of information, however much it yet remains in a rough-hewn state, with Shannon’s paradigm so pervasively informing the ongoing revolution in our understanding and use of information, I have reason to believe Peirce’s idea is root and branch more general and has the potential, with due development, to resolve many mysteries still bedeviling our grasp of inference, information, and inquiry.

Inference, Information, Inquiry

• OEIS Wiki • Information = Comprehension × Extension

• Blog Series • { Information = Comprehension × Extension }
• Selections • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6)
• Comments • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6) • (7) • (8)
• Discussions • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6) • (7)

• Blog Series • { Information = Comprehension × Extension } • Revisited
• Selections • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6)
• Comments • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5)
• Discussions • (8) • (9) • (10) • (11) • (12) • (13) • (14) • (15) • (16) • (17)

Pragmatic Semiotic Information

• Blog Series • Pragmatic Semiotic Information (Ψ)
• Discussions • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6) • (7) • (8) • (9) • (10) • (11) • (12) • (13) • (14) • (15) • (16) • (17) • (18) • (19) • (20)

Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations

• Semeiotic • OEIS Wiki • Wikiversity
• Blog Series • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6) • (7) • (8) • (9)

Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relation Theory

• Blog Series • (1)
• Discusssions • (1) • (2)

Excursions

• Semiotic Information
• Peirce’s Logic Of Information

Blog Dialogs

• Semiotic Theory Of Information • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6)
• Icon Index Symbol • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6) • (7) • (8) • (9) • (10) • (11) • (12) • (13) • (14) • (15) • (16) • (17)
• Sign Relations • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6) • (7) • (8) • (9) • (10) • (11) • (12)
• Sign Relations, Triadic Relations, Relations • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4) • (5) • (6) • (7) • (8) • (9) • (10) • (11)

References

• Peirce, C.S. (1867), “Upon Logical Comprehension and Extension”.  Online.
• Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1992), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry”, The Eleventh International Human Science Research Conference, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.
• Awbrey, J.L., and Awbrey, S.M. (1995), “Interpretation as Action : The Risk of Inquiry”, Inquiry : Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 15(1), pp. 40–52.  Archive.  Journal.  Online.

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