From Information to Autonomy: Analogies between Biology and the Language Sciences
John Stewart
(Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Evelyne Andreewsky
(INSERM‐TLNP, Hôpital de la Salpétrière, Paris, France)
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Abstract
According to the dominant paradigm in both biology and the language sciences, “information” is an entity which can be “contained” in genes or words; “transferred” to a receptor, this “information” is supposedly the key to phenomena such as the ontogenesis of living organisms or the meaning of language. Argues that this paradigm suffers from unsurmountable weaknesses and, moreover, that possible alternatives exist: maybe the time has come to abandon the information cult.
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Citation
Stewart, J. and Andreewsky, E. (1992), "From Information to Autonomy: Analogies between Biology and the Language Sciences", Kybernetes, Vol. 21 No. 5, pp. 15-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005939
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1992, MCB UP Limited