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Opening Up Closure: Semiotics Across Scales
Author(s) -
LEMKE JAY L.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06269.x
Subject(s) - semiotics , closure (psychology) , variety (cybernetics) , meaning (existential) , computer science , linguistics , epistemology , philosophy , artificial intelligence , political science , law
A bstract : The dynamic emergence of new levels of organization in complex systems is related to the semiotic reorganization of discrete/continuous variety at the level below as continuous/discrete meaning for the level above. In this view both the semiotic and the dynamic closure of system levels is reopened to allow the development and evolution of greater complexity.