%0 Journal Article
%T Information and the Regulation of a Lower Hierarchical Level by a Higher One
%A Stanley N. Salthe
%J Information
%D 2012
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/info3040595
%X In this paper I consider the usefulness of the compositional hierarchy model in understanding the information flows involved in group behaviors in animals. I propose that short-term memory can function to transduce information across scale, thereby connecting different modes of information and mediating coherent group motions. This transduction I propose to be mediated by the ˇ°signˇ± as understood in Peircean semiotics, generating the meaning of the information for the social animal.
%K compositional hierarchy
%K semiotics
%K short term memory
%K sign
%U http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/3/4/595