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Area of Science:

  • Semiotics
  • Cognitive Science
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Bio-semiotics

Background:

  • The paper examines the continuity between organic codes, natural signals, and human cultural sign systems.
  • It introduces a semiotic tree model illustrating an ascending hierarchy of semiotic forms, from basic organic codes to complex symbolic systems.
  • This hierarchy influences mental organization, subjective experience, epistemology, and information processing, highlighting the link between semiotic and semantic factors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the developmental continuum from organic codes to complex cultural symbol systems.
  • To propose a bio-semiotic, multi-code model of mind based on progressive stages of symbolization.
  • To reframe theoretical understanding of mind through epigenetic and morphological principles, linking biological and psychological processes.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptualizing a semiotic tree to depict the hierarchy of semiotic forms.
  • Applying psychoanalytic methods to interpret unconscious phenomena and semantic fields.
  • Utilizing Freud's dream analysis to decode unconscious 'Primary Process' semantics.
  • Developing a multilayered model of mind based on epigenetic and morphological principles.

Main Results:

  • Identified a semiotic hierarchy from organic codes to abstract symbolic forms, each linked to distinct mental organizations.
  • Demonstrated how language integrates unconscious functions and elevates conscious cognition.
  • Proposed a bio-semiotic multiple-code model of mind, emphasizing symbolization as a unique human faculty.
  • Showcased how conscious mind emerges through signifying acts, with profound cognitive and psychological implications.

Conclusions:

  • The development of symbolization is a unique human cerebral faculty crucial for language and the concept of 'Mind'.
  • Conscious mind arises from the act of signifying, with significant impacts on experience and knowledge.
  • A bio-semiotic approach integrating biological and psychological processes offers a comprehensive understanding of the human mind.