Languaging Behaviour as Catalytic Process: Steps Towards a Theory of Living Language (PART II)
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Abstract
The Specificational Character of Linguistic InformationLinguistic information persists in the environment on the long, slow timescales of culture.Information in the Gibsonian perspective serves to regulate behaviour and, potentially, to change the animal's relationship to its environment.Moreover, information is a resource that must specify other environmental resources, as Reed (1996a: 48) points out, without being the same as those other resources.How does this apply to languaging behaviour?In Gibson's theory, information in the environment exists in structured ambient energy fields.The task of the animal is to locate the structure in such fields (Reed 1996a: 48).Information is specificational in Gibson's theoryit functions to specify particular environmental affordances.Structured ambient energy field remain invariant under certain transformations caused by the animal.Such invariants serve to specify persisting environmental resources.Information in a structured ambient energy field is a complex structuring of contrasts or differentiations caused by the ways in which an environmental event (e.g. a slamming door or a person's vocal tract activity) causes the acoustic or other medium to be restructured such that perceivers can become coupled to the source of the disturbance of the array, i.e. the environmental event.Languaging behaviour, I suggest, makes available to both the self and others just such structured ambient energy fields.The detection of invariants in this field includes the phonologically salient contrasts created by organ-specific vocal tract gestures (Section 15).Linguistic information as discussed above specifies something about the relevant environment in which it is uttered.Information of this kind remains invariant irrespective of what particular individuals do.This is what Gibson (1986Gibson ( [1979]]) called exterospecific information.Gibson distinguishes this kind of information from propriospecific information, which depends upon what the organism is doing now.The latter specifies how the animal is engaging with its environment.Both kinds of information are simultaneously available in the structured ambient energy fields generated by languaging behaviour.Exterospecific linguistic information includes the information generated by predicational relations in language.It is
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".