The Physical Universe As An Information-Processing System Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Davies & Gribbin (1992: 277):

… scientists are increasingly thinking of the physical Universe less as a collection of cogs in a machine and more as an information-processing system. Gone are the clod-like lumps of matter, to be replaced instead by "bits" of information. This is the shape of the emerging universe paradigm — a complex system in which mind, intelligence and information are more important than the hardware. The time has come for us to take a look at life, mind and intelligence, not as a parochial human concern, but in their cosmic context.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, the information-processing system is the conscious processing, a senser sensing and a sayer saying, reified as 'mind', and the information is the meaning, realised in wording, projected by conscious processing. The physical Universe is the construal of experience as material order meaning (phenomena), and theories of the physical Universe are reconstruals of material order meaning as semiotic order meaning (metaphenomena).