Wiener’s Insight into Communication

Abstract

Briefly describes the impact that Wiener’s work had on language and communication. He believed that a message was “a sequence of measurable events distributed in time” – a signal that could only be interpreted by a receiver who was in possession of the particular code. This went against the traditional beliefs of semantics that meaning travelled in a communication channel. Bemoans the fact that Wiener’s insights on this subject did not become established but hopes one day that they might.

Citation

von Glasersfeld, E. (1994), "Wiener’s Insight into Communication", Kybernetes, Vol. 23 No. 6/7, pp. 21-22. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684929410068307