I’m with you on the deficiency of the signalling frame when talking about human communication and communication more generally. Skyrms and others who developed the signalling frame explicitly tried to avoid having a notion of of intentionality in order to explore questions like “how could the simplest things that still make sense to call ‘communication’ develop in systems that don’t have human level intelligence?”, which means the model has a gaping hole when trying to talk about what people do.
I wrote a post about the interplay between the intentional aspects of meaning and what you’re calling the probabilistic information. It’s doesn’t get too into the weeds, but might provoke more ideas in you.
I’m with you on the deficiency of the signalling frame when talking about human communication and communication more generally. Skyrms and others who developed the signalling frame explicitly tried to avoid having a notion of of intentionality in order to explore questions like “how could the simplest things that still make sense to call ‘communication’ develop in systems that don’t have human level intelligence?”, which means the model has a gaping hole when trying to talk about what people do.
I wrote a post about the interplay between the intentional aspects of meaning and what you’re calling the probabilistic information. It’s doesn’t get too into the weeds, but might provoke more ideas in you.