Re: Some thoughts on the Modelling Relation

["Daniel A. Fiscus" <***>]

Tim,

I forgot to mention that phyto-semiotics (plants),
zoosemiotics (animals) and anthro-semiotics (humans)
are not only different modeling systems and systems
of meaning, but the semiotics folks also talk of
them as being hard if not possible to bridge between,
that communication between these realms is near
impossible because they are so different. They talk
of some inter-species communication between humans
and chimps/apes, and the link between and anthro-
and zoo-semiotics seems near bridgable. But imagine
the gap between human and plant systems of meaning
and trying to communicate across that gap? I don't
think the difficulty of this thought experiment
means that plants don't have intelligence at all,
rather that the type, form or formalism of that
plant intelligence is vastly different. So different
that it might be a link to say that Natural Law in
the two realms is different also.

Dan