Mathematical Models of Meaning - A Dynamic Systems Approach to Possible World Semiotics

A mathematical model of meaning that captures the dynamics and diversity of meaning-oriented agents. In Partially grounded in a pragmatist approach, this book rethinks the semiotic, statistical, and logical currents of Charles Sanders Peirce’s thought in relation to more recent developments in allied traditions. Putting possible worlds, as well as social relations, at the center of significance, it focuses on the emergence of meaningful behavior among relatively distributed agents that choose in real time, learn over developmental time, or evolve over phylogenetic time.

Table des matières

Contents
List of Figures ix
Preface xiv
Acknowledgement xv
1 Introduction
I AGENTS THAT THINK
2 Symptoms and Sickness
3 Predators and Prey
II AGENTS THAT EVOLVE
4 Biosemiotic Agents
5 Hawks, Doves, Mutants
III AGENTS THAT LEARN
6 Reinforcement Learning
7 Machine Semiosis
IV PRESUPPOSITIONS AND EXTENSIONS
8 Possible World Semiotics
9 Meta-Semiotic Processes
10 Revelation and Confrontation
A Energy and Entropy, Information and Value
B Complexity, Organization, Constraint
C The Utility of a Sign
References
Index

A propos de l'auteur

Paul Kockelman teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation, The Anthropology of Intensity, and Last Words: Large Language Models and the AI Apocalypse.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Paul Kockelman, Kockelman Paul
• Edition: The MIT Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 19.08.2025
• EAN: 9780262552684
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55268-4
• Pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / Bayesian Analysis, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Bayesian Inference, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc