On Communication. An Interdisciplinary and Mathematical Approach

• Main Authors: Klüver, Jurgen (Author), Klüver, Christina (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Theory and Decision Library ; 40
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Computers.; Philosophy, general.; Information Systems and Communication Service.

This book offers a radical new approach for the understanding of communication. By using the theoretical framework of complex systems theory communication is defined as the interplay of social and cognitive dynamics: communicators are modelled as complex cognitive systems who interact according to s...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Communication – problems of a concept and a new methodical approach
• Excursion into complex systems theory
• Meaning and Information: the semantic dimension of communication
• The social dimension of communication
• The cognitive dimension of communication
• The general equations of communicative processes
• Examples: Computer Models as Operationalization
• Epilogue: The Mathematical Conditions of Human Cognition and Communication.