Re: information ecologies and semiosphere
Matvey Sokolowsky (sokolovs who-is-at uconnvm.uconn.edu)
Thu, 04 Feb 1999 15:15:31 -0500
At 09:59 AM 2/4/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Bonnie and Luiz--
>
> Lotman and others use the term "semiosphere" to index the total
environment of meanings that constitute the cultural medium of human life.
What might
>the relation of an information ecology be to a semiosphere. It must
involve the
>conditions under which meanings constitute information (differences that make
>differences in the semiosphere?).
>mike
>
Somehow I feel that that it may be more interesting to ask when information
constitute meaning. My perception is that information is only a tool (in
vyg's terms). Gigsonian use of the word "ecology" would bring information
ecologies very close to semiosphere though, because he might argue that
information that contains no meaning is not distinguishable. So my feeling
that in the raising discussion we have a danger of using the word
"information" in very diverse meanings?
What do you think?