Re: [Fis] A definition of Information

Dear Rafael

Then we do not disagree. By putting Firstness and hypercomplexity in the
foundation a reduction is avoided, and Cybersemiotics stands as one
offer among many of conceptualizing the problem of information,
cognition and meaningful communication.

Rafael Capurro wrote:
>
> Dear Soeren,
>
> > When Rafael and others complains that these systems thinking frames
> becomes too all-encompassing like dialectical materialism my questions is
> then: what is the alternative if not an unreflected metaphysics and
> epistemology? Our metaphysics is at least a reflected one, knowing that it
> will never be the last word.>
>
> the alternative is of course the *basic* undeterminacy of the "concept" of
> Being. This is what allows us to create always new *metaphysics* such as
> *cybersemiotics* and to see them AS such, i.e. not to become ideologists. To
> put it in Fregean terms: ( ) does something
> Being is not a property of beings and it is NOT a sign.
> We cannot speak "about" being, only "from it". Wittgenstein put it like
> this: "That what we cannot speak from ("wovon"), we must become silent about
> it (dar�ber)". But, as much as Frege, Wittgenstein is speaking "von" (from)
> Being. Sorry for all this philosophical bla bla...
> Rafael

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