Sharing G. Evelyn Hutchinson's fabricational noise
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12636653 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Myrdene Anderson (Purdue University West Lafayette, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Pages | 388-396 |
| Publication date | 2000-12-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sign Systems Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1406-4243 • E-ISSN: 1736-7409 |
| Publisher | University of Tartu (PUBLISHER • EE) |
| DOI | 10.12697/sss.2000.28.21 |
| OpenAlex | W2728512228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
One of the seminal constructs in 20th-century biosemiotics is G. Evelyn Hutchinson's 'niche'. This notion opened up and unpacked cartesian space and time to recognize self-organizing roles in open, dynamical systems — in n-dimensional hyperspace. Perhaps equally valuable to biosemiotics is Hutchinson's inclusive approach to inquiry and his willingness to venture into abductive territory, which have reaped rewards for a range of disciplines beyond biology, from art to anthropology. Hutchinson assumed the fertility of inquiry flowing from open, far-from-equilibrium systems to be characterized by 'fabricational noise', following Seilacher, or 'order out of chaos', following Prigogine. Serendipitous 'noise' can self-organize into information at other levels, as does the 'noise' of Hutchinson's contributions themselves
Biosemiotics · Epistemology · Hyperspace · Noise (video · Semiotics · Sociology · Computer Science · Origins and Evolution of Life · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Artificial Intelligence
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |