CONTEXT
Charles François (2004). CONTEXT, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 658.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 658 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Methodology or model |
1. The environment of a fact, datum, situation, word, information, etc… that helps its understanding.
2.“A metamessage which classifies the elementary signal” (G. BATESON, 1967, p.260).
A sufficient context should include the effective interactions that could alter the meaning of any registered observation.
G. BATESON states: “Either we must discard the notion of ”context“, or we retain this notion and, with it, accept the hierarchic series - stimulus, context of stimulus, context of context of stimulus, etc. This series can be spelled out in the form of a hierarchy of logical types as follows:
- “Stimulus is an elementary signal, internal or external
- “Context of stimulus is a meta'''message which classifies the elementary signal.
- “Context of context of stimulus is a meta-metamessage which classifies the metamessage.
- “And so on” (Ibid).
A kind of recursive algorithmic perceptual and conceptual Russian matrioshka, so to say.