Dynamic and Linguistic Modes of Complex Systems

Pattee, H. H.

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“…According to Olby, the interest or enthusiasm of some for Schrödinger's "a-periodic crystal", contrasts with his negative feeling about Bohr's complementarity (Olby 1974(Olby [1994, p. 247; Moore 1989, p. 473). Curiously, Pattee found one of his most important influences precisely in Bohr's idea (see, among others, Pattee 1967Pattee , 1977Pattee , 1978Pattee , 1979Pattee , 1982, while he almost does not refer to Schrödinger's book at all, even if the idea of code is really an important and basic one for him. Well, he does cite this book sometimes but not as often as Bohr and, more important, in general to refer to Schrödinger's analysis of order and reliability, not the code -script.…”

Section: What About Pattee?mentioning

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“…For instance, on the conceptual side, the fundamental paper by on code duality, which is one of the first references in a biosemiotician context to Pattee's work, does not mention the 1969 paper and Pattee himself is cited directly just once noticing his defense of the necessity of a description as a basis for self-refence (p. 126) citing two papers (one of them is the already mentioned contribution to the IV TTB of 1972) and they again refer to one of this papers (Pattee 1977) while introducing a sort of Polanyi's 'tacit knowledge' (p. 127). In a quite complementary paper to that one by the same authors ("From Language to Nature", , they introduce Pattee in relation to the origin of life problem asserting that "… it has been a central idea to Pattee in dealing with these problems during the past two decades, that the essence of the matter-symbol problem and the measurement or recording problem must appear at the origin of life" and they quote the 1969 paper (together with other two).…”

Section: What About Semiotics?mentioning

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Where Does Pattee’s “How Does a Molecule Become a Message?” Belong in the History of Biosemiotics?

Umerez

2009

Biosemiotics

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Recalling the title of Yoxen's classical paper on the influence of Schrödinger's book, I analyze the role that the work of H. Pattee might have played, if any, in the development of Biosemiotics. I take his 1969 paper "How does a molecule become a message?" (Developmental Biology Supplement) as a first target due to several circumstances that make it especially salient. On the one hand, even if Pattee has obviously developed further his ideas on later papers, the significance of this one springs out right from the title, the journal and date of publication and, of course, its content. On the other, this paper in particular has been somehow rediscovered recently and not only within the frame of biosemiotics (eg, in history and philosophy of biology by E.F. Keller). Following the parallelism with Yoxen's perspective, I contend that Pattee's work was relatively influential with respect to a good amount of attempts to rethink living systems within theoretical biology around the 70s. This influence diminished together with the decay or even collapse of those attempts under the impact of molecular biology as it was being developed those years. Eventually, Pattee's work has been taken up again. Notwithstanding, it is quite clear that Pattee himself was not intending to contribute specifically to Biosemiotics and that he was probably unaware of any such discipline, at least until recently. Then, we should as well ask (as Yoxen wonders with respect to Schrödinger) to which extent Pattee's influence has been a direct one or rather an indication of the relevance of his ideas and the resonance of his hypotheses with those of biosemiotics. For this task I will sketch a few points of Biosemiotics

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Section: What About Pattee?mentioning

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Where Does Pattee’s “How Does a Molecule Become a Message?” Belong in the History of Biosemiotics?

Umerez

2009

Biosemiotics

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“…What is unique to the present progressive tense is enhancement of the extent of concretization with the progression. Concretization proceeds with measurement internal to any participating material bodies in the sense that measurement comes to constrain the concerned parties more and more with its progression by distinguishing before and after the very act of each measurement (Pattee, 1977). This form of measurement internal to any material bodies, or internal measurement in short, is in fact ubiquitous wherever interactions of material origin are available (Matsuno, 1985(Matsuno, , 1989Rossler, 1987).…”

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Beyond Representation: Bridging the Chasm between the Different Grammatical Tenses

Matsuno¹

2007

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Representing the activity of experiencing in the empirical world is a formidable task because it requires a representation that remains passively immobile on its own. The activity of experiencing is about the concrete particulars addressed only in the present progressive and in the present perfect tense. The representation will come to be conceivable if the concrete particulars addressed in the present perfect happen to be identical to those addressed also in the present progressive tense. The equality serves as a universal in the present tense. Unless the present perfect tense is equated to the present progressive in the present tense, there would be no representation. Nonetheless, there is a possibility to think of a representation under the condition that it can frequently be updated. Constant update of a representation proceeds in the present progressive tense carrying the capacity of ameliorating those inconsistencies among the completed local events registered in the preceding present perfect tense. Short-lived representation can be appreciated only when we understand and view the present tense from the internalist perspective. The internalist present tense actualizes only in the limited interval over which the present perfect tense locally happens to be identical to the present progressive. Representation in the internalist present tense can cope with intrinsically dynamic situations through undermining the present tense while constantly eliminating the conflicts between the underlying present progressive and present perfect tense.

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“…A model may thus have time properties, be moving or changing, whereas a sentence is always independent of time in the sense that the corresponding "sentence" is stable, or constant, for as long as it takes to use it in the language for communication and interpretation. In a work of Pattee [25] physical assumptions for a language permitting reading and writing are explained. Now, how can change be described by constancy?…”

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“…In [25], Pattee develops a concept of complementarity for systems, based on a physical conception of language. He refers to the subject-object complementarity, which also plays a role for Bohr in his thinking of complementarity.…”

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Towards System: From Computation to the Phenomenon of Language

Löfgren

1988

Nature, Cognition and System I

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Dynamic and Linguistic Modes of Complex Systems

Cited by 248 publications

References 6 publications

Where Does Pattee’s “How Does a Molecule Become a Message?” Belong in the History of Biosemiotics?

Where Does Pattee’s “How Does a Molecule Become a Message?” Belong in the History of Biosemiotics?

Beyond Representation: Bridging the Chasm between the Different Grammatical Tenses

Towards System: From Computation to the Phenomenon of Language

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