In this paper we discuss a set of conceptual issues regarding the synthesis of semiotic processes within artificial systems, and its technological offspring, the semionic networks. We start by putting in context what is this thing semiotic synthesis, and how and why it differs from semiotic analysis. We follow proposing the concept of a "semion", as both an elementary entity with semiotic proce...

The concept of information in ordinary language is being analysed in detail. It will be shown that information is a family resemblance concept which is not definable in a unified way. As a consequence, an integrated semiotic information processing model is postulated instead of a unified information concept.

This paper proposes and examines a semiotic framework to inform the use of technology in mathematics education. Semiotics asserts that all cognition is irreducibly triadic, of the nature of a sign, fallible, and thoroughly immersed in a continuing process of interpretation (Halton, 1992). Mathematical meaning-making or meaningful knowledge construction is a continuing process of interpretation ...

Here, we present a semiotic model of signaling pathways in B-cells in order to substantiate the view that semiotic modeling is required for the referential aspect of signaling processes to be grasped. We discuss how a process of asymmetry-formation through membrane closing puts living systems under selection pressure to develop semiotic competence, and, thus, signaling becomes a key process in ...

What semiotic potential resides in a 3D virtual environment? This paper accounts for some system features of a Norwegian virtual world, Patagonia, which is part of the 3D Render Ware based ActiveWorlds. It is argued that these features constitute a semiotic resource in interplay with language. The paper suggests visual semiotics as an additional framework to discourse studies of computer-mediat...

Computationalism should be the view that cognition is computable; therefore, computationalism can be true even if (human) cognition is not the result of computations in the brain. Semiotic systems should be understood as systems that interpret signs; therefore, both humans and computers are semiotic systems. Minds can be considered as virtual machines implemented in certain semiotic systems, pr...

This dissertation explores the implications of new photographic and computer technologies that offer the transduction of modalities. The fundamental argument, here, is that such technologies ‘change’ the process of sense-making resulting in a new asymmetry that informs the visual language of the creative work. I argue that the processes of language analysis can assist us in the interpretation o...

Computationalism should not be the view that (human) cognition is computation; 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. If semiotic systems are systems that interpret signs, then both humans and computers are semiotic systems. Finally, minds can be cons...

This paper presents semiotic engineering – a semiotic theory of HCI. The theory has the advantage to integrate back end and front end design and development perspectives into a single metacommunication process that affects the user’s experience and, ultimately, the success of any system. By means of illustrative examples, we show the kinds of effects that can be achieved with the theory, and di...

This document contains: 1° the complete translation of one paper by Pasteur (see for reference Conant’s Harvard case study on spontaneous generation) 2° the same text underlined and segmented by myself; 3° a rather complete semiotic inventory of the same text; 4° a tentative draft of a paper using this semiotic treatment to answer science studies question (partially published in (51) 1993: « Pa...