ONT Re: Zeroth Order Theories (ZOT's)
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Let's take a little break from the Example in progress
and look at where we are and what we have been doing from
computational, logical, and semiotic perspectives. Because,
after all, as is usually the case, we should not let our focus
and our fascination with this particular Example prevent us from
recognizing it, and all that we do with it, as just an Example of
much broader paradigms and predicaments and principles, not to say
but a glimmer of ultimately more concernful and fascinating objects.
I chart the progression that we have just passed through in this way:
| Parse
| Sign A o-------------->o Sign 1
| ^ |
| / |
| / |
| / |
| Object o | Transform
| ^ |
| \ |
| \ |
| \ v
| Sign B o<--------------o Sign 2
| Verse
|
| Figure. Computation As Sign Transformation
In the present case, the Object is an objective situation
or a state of affairs, in effect, a particular pattern of
feature concurrences occurring to us in that world through
which we find ourselves most frequently faring, wily nily,
and the Signs are different tokens and different types of
data structures that we somehow or other find it useful
to devise or to discover for the sake of representing
current objects to ourselves on a recurring basis.
But not all signs, not even signs of a single object, are alike
in every other respect that one might name, not even with respect
to their powers of relating, significantly, to that common object.
And that is what our whole business of computation busies itself about,
when it minds its business best, that is, transmuting signs into signs
in ways that augment their powers of relating significantly to objects.
Jon Awbrey
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