Cybersemiotics: a transdisciplinary framework for information studies

This paper summarizes recent attempts by this author to create a transdisciplinary, non-Cartesian and non-reductionistic framework for information studies in natural, social, and technological systems. To confront, in a scientific way, the problems of modern information technology where phenomenological man is dealing with socially constructed texts in algorithmically based digital bit-machines we need a theoretical framework spanning from physics over biology and technological design to phenomenological and social production of signification and meaning. I am working with such pragmatic theories as second order cybernetics (coupled with autopolesis theory), Lakoffs biologically oriented cognitive semantics, Peirceʹs triadic semiotics, and Wittgensteinʹs pragmatic language game theory. A coherent synthesis of these theories is what the cybersemiotic framework attempts to accomplish.