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A transdisciplinary theory of cognition and communication based on the process self-organizing and autopoietic system theory of Niklas Luhmann integrated with a triadic semiotic paradigm of experience and interpretation with phenomenological and hermeneutical aspects of C.S. Peirce, goes beyond info-computationalism in its integrating of phenomenological and hermeneutical aspects of Peircean semiotic logic with a cybernetic and autopoietic systemic emergentist process view. This makes the emergence of mind and transdisciplinary view of sciences possible.
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In according with tradition reference to W, EP1 and 2, RTL, HL, NEM, MS and R are to: Peirce, C. S. (1992). Peirce, Charles S., Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Vols. 1–6 and 8, ed. (1981–2010) Peirce Edition Project, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [W1–W6, W8]. Peirce, Charles S., Collected Papers, InteLex electronic edition reproducing Vols. I–VI (ed. Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931–1935), and Vols. VII–VIII (ed. Arthur W. Burks, same publisher, 1958). [CP 1–8] [CP. Vol and paragraph] Peirce, Charles S., Houser, N. and Kloesel, C(ed.) (1992).The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, Vol. 1, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. [EP1]. Peirce, Charles S., ed. Peirce Edition Project (Ed.) (1998). The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, Vol. 2 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). [EP2]. Peirce, Charles S., ed. (1997) Turrisi, P. A. Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking, study edition of the 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism (Albany: State University of New York Press) [HL].Peirce, Charles S., ed. (1992) Ketner, K. L. Reasoning and the Logic of Things, the Cambridge Conferences Lectures, with introduction and commentary by Ketner and Hilary Putnam (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). [RLT]. Peirce, C.S. The New Elements of Mathematics; [NEM] v indicates volume number, p page number. MS and R: Peirce’s manuscripts unpublished in book or article form, transcriptions or facsimiles of them available on the internet identified by MS number. Most scholars use the MS numbers assigned by Richard Robin, sometimes preceded by “R” instead of “MS”.
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Brier, S. (2021). Cybersemiotic Systemic and Semiotical Based Transdisciplinarity. In: Vidales, C., Brier, S. (eds) Introduction to Cybersemiotics: A Transdisciplinary Perspective. Biosemiotics, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52746-4_2
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