Cybernetics and Narrative Diagram: Milestones for a new semiotic theory

From the comparison of Wiener's cybernetics and Greimas's narrative schema, we can establish their respective strong points : in Wiener's feedback schema, the functions of control and information in messages, on the one hand, and operations relating to message transmission, on the other hand; in Greimas's narrative schema, the final sanction anticipated by a subject and motivating him to accomplish another subject's proposal. The new proposed theory merges these strong points and adds some notions elaborated elsewhere : in particular, the notion of need, inspired by Maslow's theory of motivation. We end up in a need satisfaction schema consisting of six steps with which are associated many complementary notions : among others, the value of an object in connection with the satisfaction of one of the four essential needs, the existential or value judgement expressed by a subject, an operation that does or does not modify a subject's assets, whether the subject be individual or collective. Finally, in the context of this new theory, the notion of subject is broadened and includes any living being or association of living beings - human beings, animals or plants.