Messages, Information, Twitter
A post to the Peirce List
Just a side note. In the evolving thought of Triadic Philosophy there has always been a designation of the Third as action or expression. Action we can easily see as whatever we do physically or otherwise that we could call a true act. Expression reflects my sense that there is little difference between a statement, a writing a bit of information and an act. You make an expression. It involves intent and movement. It is obvious that the growing power of social movements is somewhat related to this line of thought. Even the consumption of the news — which are signs that certainly produce action in on the five or six SM nodes that dominate — is related. In my view words and the information they convey are the means by which we can more toward a democratic revolution worldwide based to some extent on the power of messaging. Of course Peirce mentioned memorial maxims which might be synonymized as a remembered tweet. This is possibly why I have spent most of the last three years building slowly on Twitter.
