@article{Queiroz+El-Hani2012,
author = "Joao Queiroz and Charbel El-Hani",
title = "{Downward Determination in Semiotic Multi-level Systems}",
year = 2012,
journal = "Cybernetics & Human Knowing",
volume = 19,
number = "1-2",
pages = "123-136",
issn = "0907-0877",
abstract = "{Peirce's pragmatic notion of semiosis can be described in terms of a multi-level system of constraints involving chance, efficient, formal and final causation. According to the model proposed here, law-like regularities, which work as boundary conditions or organizational principles, have a downward effect on the spatiotemporal distribution of lower-level semiotic items. We treat this downward determinative influence as a propensity relation: if some lower-level entities a,b,c,-n are under the influence of a general organizational principle, W, they will show a tendency to behave in certain specific ways, and, thus, to instantiate a set of specific processes. Our goal in this paper is to examine the role of downward determination in semiotic systems, conceived as multi-level hierarchical systems.
}",
url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/chk/2012/00000019/F0020001/art00007",
keywords = "Semiosis, Emergence, Downward Determination, Causation",
language = "English",
note = "From the Commens Bibliography | \url{http://www.commens.org/bibliography/journal_article/queiroz-joao-el-hani-charbel-2012-downward-determination-semiotic-multi}"
}
