Creating New Informational Primitives in Minds and Machines

Cariani, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31727-9_15

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“…This self-construction process can even go further to adaptively modify all parts of the cybernetic system including revisions of goal structures, refinement of evaluative mechanisms, and elaboration of coordinative mechanisms. Such systems arguably have open-ended evolutionary possibilities-they can transcend their initial specifications (Cariani 1989(Cariani , 1992(Cariani , 1993(Cariani , 2012aKampis 1991).…”

Section: Adaptive Percept-action Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sign Functions in Natural and Artificial Systems

Cariani

2015

International Handbook of Semiotics

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Semiotics, in its many forms, presents a rich and multifaceted framework for comprehending many different kinds of natural and artificial processes. A naturalistic framework is presented for explaining how signs realize basic informational functions in biological organisms, social organizations, and artificial devices. A theory of functional semiotics attempts to answer basic questions about organization and semiotic function, such as what properties must material systems have in order to support signs and sign functions? How can semiotic processes in natural, social, and artificial worlds be distinguished from nonsemiotic processes? Such a theory also seeks to address more complex theoretical issues: What kinds of semiotic functions are possible? What are the organizational requisites for meaning and purpose? Are there neurosemiotic requisites conscious awareness?This chapter outlines a broad theory of sign use in natural and artificial systems that was developed over several decades within the context of theoretical biology, cybernetics, systems theory, biosemiotics, and neuroscience (Cariani 1989(Cariani , 2001a(Cariani , b, 2011.It begins with a survey of different approaches to semiosis in nature. General functional properties of and operations on signs are then discussed, beginning with the use of signs in computers and formal systems followed by a semiotic description of the operational structure of scientific models that illustrates sign-mediated syntax, semantic, and pragmatic relations in observers.The framework is then expanded to cover percept-action loops in animals and robots by including sign-directed action on the external world. Simple percept-action loops can be elaborated by incorporating sign mechanisms that permit flexible mappings between percepts and actions. These coordinative mechanisms include memory mechanisms, which allow actions to be contingent on past percepts, and

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Section: Adaptive Percept-action Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sign Functions in Natural and Artificial Systems

Cariani

2015

International Handbook of Semiotics

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“…Celles-ci sont des entités émergentes qui n'auraient pas pu 114 être prédites de la situation initiale. Elles représentent de nouvelles perspectives, des concepts ou significations qui étendent l'espace des possibles (Cariani, 2012) …”

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Rendre la critique créative. La démarche abductive et pragmatique du design

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2018

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La démarche à la fois abductive et pragmatique du design se nourrit du terrain puis s’en détache pour proposer des scénarii à vivre, se préoccupant de l’expérience humaine dans toutes ses dimensions. Sa vocation est d’« améliorer ou au moins maintenir l’habitabilité du monde » (Findeli, 2010, 292). Basé sur un dialogue entre textes et retours d’expériences de l’auteure, designer chercheuse française, cet article vise à dresser un portrait du praticien réflexif et à dessiner quelques jalons pour outiller sa démarche, portée par un questionnement éthique. Les notions théoriques seront interrogées au regard de l’expérience, des rencontres interdisciplinaires, et des paradoxes de l’identité flexible du praticien réflexif. Renégociant perpétuellement son positionnement ainsi que ses outils, c’est une force à la fois critique et créative que celui-ci cherche à exercer dans les entreprises et la société au sens large.

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“…Creativity is sometimes categorised into two fundamental types: combinatorial creativity, in which fixed primitive elements are combined to create new structures, and emergent creativity where new structures or symbol primitives emerge ex nihilo. 23 Generative systems tend to work with the first type, as getting symbols with new semantics to emerge within a running program is currently an open research problem. 23 Defining the fundamental primitives of the system and their inter-relationships is a creative act in itself.…”

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“…23 Generative systems tend to work with the first type, as getting symbols with new semantics to emerge within a running program is currently an open research problem. 23 Defining the fundamental primitives of the system and their inter-relationships is a creative act in itself. In a truly emergent system new primitives emerge that were not explicitly defined when the system was specified -invoking a creativity attributable to the system itself.…”

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confidence: 99%