Information networks and systemic properties. An epistemological perspective
Abstract
In this article, I present a proposal for a new epistemic paradigm for the interpretation of complex reticular phenomena: the information network. The principal idea of this essay is that the most crucial thing in a net is not its architecture but the information content it conveys: any information is here presented as a set of signs. Hence, any information network constitutes a semiotic system. The nodes of a net can be seen as the agents of a system, each one manipulating the signs locally. I argue that the information structure itself influences the local responses of these individual agents, feeding them back into the system and self-organizing.
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