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0364 According to Shannon’s information theory, which offers a mathematical model for “information” occurring in human-mediated electro-magnetic transmissions,<\/em> there are five components to the whole process: (i) an information source, (ii) a transmitter, (iii) a channel, (iv) a receiver and (v) a destination that serves as an information sink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0365 Can I draw associations to the S&T noumenal overlay?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suppose so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0366 The specifying sign-interpretant3b,1b<\/sub> (SIs<\/sub>) is like an information source (i) and the specifying sign-vehicle2a<\/sub> (SVs<\/sub>) associates to the transmission (ii) of something2a<\/sub> that stands for information2b<\/sub> (SOs<\/sub>).  Maybe, I can say that the SVs<\/sub> is like a transmitter (ii) and SOs<\/sub> is like that transmission entering the proper channel (iii).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SOs<\/sub> is contiguous with SVe<\/sub>, so a transmission in the proper channel2b<\/sub> (iii) constitutes an exemplar sign-vehicle2b<\/sub>(SVe<\/sub>) that stands for a perspective-level actuality2c<\/sub> (SOe<\/sub>) (iv), according a perspective-level normal-context3c<\/sub> and potential1c<\/sub> (SIe<\/sub>) (v).  So, the SOe <\/sub>may be labeled as a receiver (iv) and the exemplar sign-interpretant3c,1c<\/sub> (SIe<\/sub>) associates to the information sink or destination (v).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0367 Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0368 Of course, my associations are both evocative and fallible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are three implications (F, G, H).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0369 First (F), Shannon’s theory of communication<\/em> regards biosemiotic sign-interpretants<\/em> as sources<\/em> (i) and receivers<\/em>(iv).  These are precisely the elements in the S&T noumenal overlay<\/em> that need to be explained.  Shannon’s theory<\/em> places them in black boxes<\/em> and treats them as givens<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does that imply?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the point of view of biosemiotics, <\/em>I wonder, “What is Shannon’s theory<\/em> actually modeling?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0370 After all, if I go to the start of the chapter, the two crucial aspects involved in biological change,<\/em> as characterized by the premoderns, correspond to sign-interpretants<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0371 Shannon’s theory of communication<\/em> takes these two primordial aspects<\/em> for granted, in order to concentrate on another question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the channel’s capacity to carry information?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0372 What is so important about the channel2b<\/sub> (iii)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hmmm. I see that the channel2b<\/sub><\/em> corresponds to “information2b<\/sub>” <\/em>and to SOs<\/sub>[and]SVe<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is that about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is [and] the same as [contiguity]?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this topic about to get fuzzy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0370 Second (G), Shannon’s theory of communication<\/em>, as depicted above, is consistent with a biosemiotic approach<\/em> in regards to the sources of phenomena for communication:<\/em> transmitter (SVs<\/sub>) (ii), channel (SOs<\/sub> [and] SVe<\/sub>) (iii)  and receiver (SOe<\/sub>) (iv).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, so everything’s fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0371 Does that mean that Shannon’s theory of communication<\/em> somehow is relevant to the hypothetical scenario where the.<\/em>.. um… vehicle of a beta-linked polysaccharide2a<\/sub><\/em> (SVs<\/sub>) is “transmitted” then “received” as the object of glucose molecules ready to power a wood-eating insect’s metabolism<\/em> (SOe<\/sub>)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, does the term, “information2b<\/sub>“, correspond to “the ability of a gut bacteria’s dual-modular claw and jaw apparatus<\/em> to cleave the terminal glucose<\/em> of a beta-linked polysaccharide”?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It makes me wonder about the meaning, the presence and the message underlying the word, “information2b<\/sub>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There seems be a lot going in within the situation-level actuality2b<\/sub>, which is where the SOs<\/sub> transits into the SVe<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0372 Third (H), Shannon’s theory of communication,<\/em> expressed as an application of the S&T noumenal overlay,<\/em>presents a simplification that drags the inquirer to that confounding channel2b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all, the channel (iii) goes with phenomena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In human electronic communication technology, the channel2b<\/sub> can carry only so much information2b<\/sub>.  Noise is the loss of information2b<\/sub>.  Is “noise” information that can no longer be properly received?<\/em>  Or is “noise” some lacking that makes information no longer salient?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questions like these, as problematic as they are, seem well-cogitated compared to ones that arise when Shannon’s theory of communication is transferred from the dyadic S&T noumenal overlay<\/em> to a three-level interscope containing the specifying and exemplar sign-relations<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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