[FRIAM] semiotics, again?

[Carl Tollander]

Seems like Kanji would qualify as such an exploration.   See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji particularly where they talk about
different "readings".   (also see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_characters for a broader situating
explanation)  Somewhat sideways, one could look also at the Kana (signs in
the domain of phonemes) and how they are pronounced slightly differently in
different combinations by different speakers.

Calligraphy might also qualify.

Carl


On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 6:26 PM, glen ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> EricS' categorization of a cumulative hierarchy for reflective complexity
> reminded me of this:
>
>   A Linguist Responds to Cormac McCarthy
>   http://nautil.us/issue/48/chaos/a-linguist-responds-to-cormac-mccarthy
>
> particularly the difference between a "hard-coded" referent (e.g. a
> hypothetical neuroanatomical structure tightly coupled to efficient
> language acquisition and use) versus an ambiguous/multi-valent referent.
> And that launched my typically vague meandering back to the semiotics
> 3-tuple: <sign,object,interpretant>.  Freedom can occur in any of the
> three.  A sign can refer to multiple objects, be interpreted by multiple
> interpretants, multiple objects can be signified by the same sign, etc.
> This leads directly to Sedivy's point about compositionality of signs and
> works its way back to my beef with the idea that subsystems like the BZ
> reaction (or any context-dependnt module) are complex systems.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm too ignorant of the fleshing of semiotics to know
> whether these freedoms (in any/all of the triad) have been explored.  So,
> please hand me some clues if you have them!
>
> --
> ☣ glen
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