Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Warren Weaver was a mathematician and scientist who co-edited Claude Shannon's foundational *The Mathematical Theory of Communication* (1949), establishing information theory as a formal discipline essential to understanding signal transmission and entropy. In these readings, Weaver appears as the intellectual architect who helped generalize Shannon's technical work into a broader framework applicable to meaning, consciousness, and the philosophical implications of information itself—allowing later theorists to connect communication theory to art, cybernetics, and subjective experience. His framing of information theory's relevance beyond mere signal fidelity becomes crucial for arguments about how meaning emerges from quantifiable information processes.

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Claudia Jacques

Human-Computer Interaction Design and the Cybersemiotic Experience

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Shanken, E. (2007). Telematic embrace: Visionary theories of art, technology, and consciousness by Roy Ascott. Berkeley: University of California Press. Shannon, C. (1949). The mathematical theory of communication. In C. Shannon & W. Weave…

I.J. Good

Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine

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That communication theory has a bearing on the philosophy of meaning has been suggested before (see for example, Weaver [89], pp. 114–117, and Lord Brain [8]). Note also the definition of the amount of subjective information in a propositio…

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