In this reply to James H. Fetzer’s “Minds and Machines: Limits to Simulations of Thought and Action”, I argue that computationalism should not be the view that (human) cognition is computation, but that it should be the view that cognition (simpliciter) is computable. It follows that computationalism can be true even if (human) cognition is not the result of computations in the brain. I also ar...

In this article I trace the historical development of Peirce’s semiotic rhetoric from its early appearance as a sub-discipline of symbolistic to its mature incarnation as one of the three main branches of the science of semiotic, and argue that this change in status is a symptom of Peirce’s broadening semiotic interest. The article shows how the evolution of Peirce’s theory of signs is linked t...

Abstract This research rests on the analysis of a mathematical task, concerning an arithmetic-algebraic problem and its solution, using theoretical tools from two main frames: Semiotic Bundle Approach (SBA) Onto-Semiotic (OSA). The activity has been examined by original video recordings group consisting five pupils primary education. By presenting empirical case networking theories, objective i...

This paper describes the use of Semiotic Engineering methods in the context of multi-touch interaction. Focusing on the analysis of user testing data, we describe the transferability of Semiotic Engineering methods (specifically the Communicability Evaluation Method) across two interaction paradigms. While Communicability Evaluation is traditionally used for the analysis of graphical user inter...

Understanding early traces of symbolism and the origins of language is challenging given the difficult access to the psychological and cognitive operations which underlay them from the archaeological record. In order to address this issue, we propose a semiotic framework based on the notion of representational medium. This concept helps bridging the gap between ancient and modern semiotic activ...

Abstract Whilst existing studies have investigated ludic translanguaging practices in diverse contexts, little knowledge is available on dad jokes, a common language play phenomenon Chinese online contexts. To fill this gap, focusing jokes the Weibo platform, paper investigates how and why operate by micro-blogging users. Drawing upon theoretical framework of qualitative phenomenological approa...

This paper is an inquiry into the empirical grounding of actability—an important concept for the understanding of information systems pragmatics. The paper describes the structure and the application of an analytic framework based on actability and the semiotic framework. Actability has been proposed as an important concept for the understanding of information systems pragmatics and the semioti...

This paper presents semiotics as a framework for unders tanding and designing computer systems as sign systems. Although semiotic methods can be applied to all levels of computer systems, they view computer systems under a particular perspective, namely as targets of interpretations. When we need to see c o m p u t e r systems as automata, semiotics has little to offer. The main focus of the pa...

The explosive expansion of the World Wide Web makes the search problems more challengeable. In this paper we present a search improvement method based on a semiotic connection network and a genetic algorithm. The semiotic connection network expands given keywords to an extended set of keywords. The genetic algorithm tunes up the parameters for search. The experimental results showed 6% improvem...