Paul Kockelman

Mathematical Models of Meaning

A Dynamic Systems Approach to Possible World Semiotics

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Produktbeschreibung

"An attempt to unify quantitative and qualitative approaches to the problem of meaning, written by a linguistic anthropologist with a background in mathematics and physics"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 369g
• ISBN-13: 9780262552684
• ISBN-10: 026255268X
• Artikelnr.: 73777939

Autorenporträt

Paul Kockelman teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation, The Anthropology of Intensity, and Last Words: Large Language Models and the AI Apocalypse.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Figures ix
Preface xiv
Acknowledgement xv
1 Introduction
I AGENTS THAT THINK
2 Symptoms and Sickness
3 Predators and Prey
II AGENTS THAT EVOLVE
4 Biosemiotic Agents
5 Hawks, Doves, Mutants
III AGENTS THAT LEARN
6 Reinforcement Learning
7 Machine Semiosis
IV PRESUPPOSITIONS AND EXTENSIONS
8 Possible World Semiotics
9 Meta-Semiotic Processes
10 Revelation and Confrontation
A Energy and Entropy, Information and Value
B Complexity, Organization, Constraint
C The Utility of a Sign
References
Index