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Søren Brier

Professor with special responsibilities , PhD, Dr.Phil (postdoctoral dissertation)
Søren Brier

Department of International Culture and Communication Studies

Dalgas Have 15, 2V.053
DK - 2000 Frederiksberg

Tel.: +45 3815 3132
E-mail: sb.ikk@cbs.dk

Link to this homepage: uk.cbs.dk/staff/soeren_brier

Affiliated with Center for Language, Cognition and Mentality (LaCoMe)

Søren Brier’s research primary research subject areas are:

1. Cybersemiotics: A transdisciplinary unification of cybernetics, system theory, semiotics and embodied linguistics.

2. Cross- and trans-disciplinary knowledge generation and exchange as well as the question of the autonomy and interaction of transdisciplinary frameworks in relation to mono-disciplinary science

3. Cybernetics (second order), autopoiesis and system theory

4. Bio-semiotic cognition- and communication theory

5. Information and computation philosophies including AI and AL.

6. Semiotics of information, cognitive and communication science.

7. C.S. Peirce’s semiotic philosophy of mind, nature and knowledge and Niklas Luhmann’s systemic communicative view on the same subject area.

8. Philosophy and theory of social, technical and natural sciences with humanities and their possible integration to a grander view.

9. Science communication and interaction with spiritual, religious, political and philosophical world views and paradigms in the subjective as well as the intersubjektive life world.

10. Mind-body theories in difference philosophies and spiritual systems.

11. Methodology and ontology as well as theory of knowledge across all knowledge systems.

Cybersembog

Read more about Cybersemiotics

Brier contribution to a new Internet book on biosemiotics.

Paul Cobley's lecture on biosemiotics

Cultural implications of biosemiotics

Torkild Thellefsen, Bent Sørensen and Paul Cobley produced a 450 pages international festschrift in English to my 60 years birthday with 15 articles, of which 7 constructively dealt with critical development of the Cybersemiotic ideas. Thellefsen et al (2011): "From First to Third Via Cyberesemiotics" , Copenhagen: SL books . The book can be puchased here.

Cybersemiotics and other Transdisciplinary Studies of Distributed Cognition and Communication - Conference in celebration of Professor Søren Brier's 60th birthday

Interview with Søren Brier by Linda Treude in 'LIBREAS' on the application of semiotic theories and the epistemological problem of a transdisciplinary Information Science.

Søren Brier participates as an invited speaker in:
Colloquium on the Comparative Epistemology of Information & Communication in scientific disciplines. EPICIC 8. april 2011
University of Lyon 3 .

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CBS-professor in Mexican Television and the new Paper Reforma in conncetion with his invited talk on transdisciplinaruty in an international conference arraged by Televisa and OECD.

Søren Brier participated as an invited speaker at a large international conference held in Mexico in November 2010. The conference addressed the following issues: Building the future, considering education, innovation and knowledge in connection with the 50th anniversary of the OECD and Mexico’s bicentennial anniversary as a nation.
The conference was organized by Televisa and inaugurated by the President of Mexico, visited by the Mayor of Mexico City and broadcast live on the Mexican television. Broadcast from the conference session regarding education and knowledge in which Mr Brier took part as one of three speakers is available on the web-link below:
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Søren Brier has received the Warren McCulloch Award from The American Society for Cybernetics

Award til CBS

Søren Brier Receives the Warren McCulloch award from the President of the American Society of Cybernetics, Ranulph Glanville, at the University of Vienna in 2008

Søren Brier Receives the Warren McCulloch award from the President of the American Society af Cybernetice, Ranulph Glanville, at the University af Vienna in 2008

Society for Cybernetics

Editor-in-Chief for the academic journal: Cybernetics & Human Knowing ( CHKjournal )
A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis & Cyber-Semiotics

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LaCoMe projects:

Current activities

Søren Brier edit a Special Issue of Entropy:
" Cypersemiotice-Intergration of the informational and semiotic paradigms of cognition and communication"

Information in Biosemiotics:
A special Issue of the Journal af Biosemiotics
Søren Brier and Cliff Joslyn

Call_ Biosemiotic issue on Information in Biosemiotics

introductin to information in biosemiotics

What does it take to produce an interpetant BSG 2011
Talk given to the 11.th Biosemiotic Gatherings, Dactyl Foundation, New York, 21.-25 July.

Primary research areas

Semiotics of information, cognitive and communication science
Cybersemiotics
Cross- and trans-disciplinary function and possible autonomy in relation to mono-disciplinary science
Cybernetics (second order), autopoiesis and system theory
Bio-semiotic cognition- and communication theory
Information theory
Philosophy and theory of Science
The popularising of science

Selected publications

Articles available online:
(please find the list of publications below the list of articles)

Brier, S. (1992): “Foreword” (positional statement) in Cybernetics & Human Knowing, vol. 1, no.1, pp. 1-4.: Link
Brier, S. (1992): “Information and Consciousness: A Critique of the Mechanistic foundation of the Concept of In¬formation” in Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol.1, no. 2/3, pp 71- 94: Link
Brier, S. (1993): “Conversational Ethics and the Global Environment” in Cybernetics & Human Knowing vol. 1, no.4, 1993, pp. 51-55. Link
Brier, S. (1993): A Cybernetic and Semiotic View on a Galilean Theory of Psychology , Cybernetics Human Knowing Vol. 2 no. 2 1993, Link
Brier, S. (1995): “Cyber-Semiotics: On autopoiesis, code-duality and sign games in bio-semiotics” in Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Vol. 3, no. 1. Link
Brier, S. (2003): “The Cybersemiotic model of communication: An evolutionary view on the threshold between semiosis and informational exchange.” TripleC 1(1) Link
Brier, S. (2003/2002): “Luhmann Semiotized” p. 13 -23 J. of Sociocybernetics 2003/2002 3 (2) Link
Brier, S. (2003): “Information seen as part of the development of living intelligence: the five leveled Cybersemiotic framework for FIS”. Entropy: 2003, 5, 88-99. Link
Brier, S. (2003): “The Cybersemiotic model of communication: An evolutionary view on the threshold between semiosis and informational exchange.” TripleC 1(1): 71-94.
Brier, S (2004) Cybersemiotics and the problems of the information-processing paradigm as a candidate for a unified science of information behind library information science, Library Trends Wntr, 2004. Link
Brier, S. (2006): “The foundation of LIS in information science and semiotics”, Libreas: Library Ideas 1 (2006) Link1 Link2
Brier, S. (2006) Cybersemiotics Why information is not enough! Danish summary of ‘dokordisputats’ (post-doctoral dissertation/Dr. Habil): Danish Summary
Brier, S, (2006): “The necessity of Trans-Scientific Frameworks for doing Interdisciplinary Research”, Kybernetes special issue for Felix Geyer 2006 no. 3-4: 403-425. Link
Brier, S. (2008b):“A Paradigm for Biosemiotics”, Signs 2008, pp. 30-81. Link

Selected Publications

Brier, S. and Bopry, J. (2002): “Foreword: Hermeneutic Cybernetics”, Cybernetics Human Knowing, 9:3/4:3-4.
Brier, S. (2002/2003): “Luhmann Semiotized”, Journal of Cybernetics, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2002/2003, pp. 13-22.
Brier, S.(2003):” Cybersemiotics and the Question of Semiotic and Informational Treshholds” World Futures 59(5):361-380
Brier, S. (2003): “Foreword: Sebeok’s Biosemiotic contribution to cybersemiotics”, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 10: pp. 5-6.
Brier, S. (2003): “Thomas Sebeok: Mister (Bio)semiotics. An obituary for Thomas A. Sebeok.” Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 10: pp. 102-105.
Brier, S. (2003):”The Integration of Second Order, Cognitive Biology (Autopoiesis), and Biosemiotics” Cybernetics & Human Knowing, 10:1: pp. 106-109.
Brier, S. (2003): En værre uredelighed - Lomborgsagen videnskabsteoretisk set, Aktuel Naturvidenskab, No. 1, 2003, p 32-34.
Thellefsen, T.L., Brier, S. and Thellefsen, M.L. (2003): “Problems concerning the process of subject analysis and the practice of indexing: A Peircian semiotic and semantic approach toward user oriented needs in document searching,” Semiotica, 144-1/4 (2003), 177-218.
Brier, S. (2003): “The Cybersemiotic model of communication: An evolutionary view on the threshold between semiosis and informational exchange.” TrippleC 1(1): 71-94. http://triplec.uti.at/articles/tripleC1(1)_Brier.pdf
Brier. S.: (2004): “Cybersemiotics and the Problem of the Information-Processing Paradigm as a Candidate for a Unified Science of Information Behind Library and Information Science”, pp.629-657 in Library Trends, Vol. 52, No. 3, Winter 2004.
”Betydningsdannelse og Eksistens: Om evolution, bevidsthed og erkendelse hos C.S. Peirce” Semiotiske Undersøgelser, ed. Thellefsen og Dinesen, pp. 32-51. Hans Reitzels forlag, Gyldendals bogklub.
Brier, S. (2007): “Applying Luhmann’s system theory as part of a transdisciplinary frame for communication science”, Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Vol. 14, no. 2-3. Pp. 29-65.
Brier, S. (2008a): Cybersemiotics: Why Information Is Not Enough. Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication, University of Toronto Press
Brier, S. (2008b): “Bateson and Peirce on the pattern that connects and the sacred’”, Chapter 12 pp- 229-255 in Hoffmeyer, J. (ed.)(2008): A Legacy for Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as a precursor for biosemiotic thinking, Biosemiotics 2, London: Springer Verlag.