--- abstract: 'Shanker and King trumpet the adoption of a ‘new paradigm’ in communication studies, exemplified by Ape Language Research. While cautiously sympathetic, I maintain that their argument relies on a false dichotomy between ‘information’ and ‘dynamical systems’ theory, and that the resulting confusion prevents them from seeing and taking the main chance their line of thinking suggests.' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: 906 commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - 466 creators_name: - family: Spurrett given: David honourific: Dr lineage: '' date: 2002 date_type: published datestamp: 2003-07-25 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/30/85 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 3085 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/3085/1/shanker.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: ~ issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Ape Language Research, Dynamical Systems Theory, Information Processing' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:19 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: | Collier, J. (1999) Causation is the Transfer of Information. In: Causation, Natural Laws and Explanation, ed. Howard Sankey, Kluwer: 279-331. Ross, D. and Dumouchel, P. (MS) Emotions as Strategic Signals. http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/economics/staff/personalpages/dross/emote10.rtf relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:48:21 subjects: - comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys - bio-ani-cog - psy-ling - BBS succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Information processing and dynamical systems approaches are complementary type: preprint userid: 466 volume: ~