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CiE 2012: How the World Computes pp 496–506Cite as

Natural Signs

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A description of natural signs and natural information is proposed that interprets the presence of natural information as an affordance for the particular animal or species that would interpret it. This solves the reference class problem that undercuts earlier correlational accounts. It explains how there can be natural signs of individuals and also various non-correlational signs. The effect of superimposition of natural signs is then described.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 06269-2054, United States of America

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

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  1. School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK

    S. Barry Cooper

  2. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Willialm Gates Building, J.J. Thomson Avenue, CB3 0FD, Cambridge, UK

    Anuj Dawar

  3. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Benedikt Löwe

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Millikan, R.G. (2012). Natural Signs. In: Cooper, S.B., Dawar, A., Löwe, B. (eds) How the World Computes. CiE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30870-3_50

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