Semiotics

Post date: Nov 9, 2009 4:51:27 AM

Semiotics is involved with the pre-symbolic, with the poetic language, or again with prelinguistic sounds and relations, with its richness and dynamics that cannot be taken over, comprehended by symbolic processes. But on the other hand, the proper functioning of the system is secured by the existence of the symbolic thetic layer as well. In fact, the needed feature is a fragile balance between the sub-symbolic semiotic processes and between the thetic symbolic layer. A comparison may be tempted here with the distinction between the background morphological content knowledge which is a precondition for the occurrent total cognitive states. These occurrent total cognitive states have the underlying morphological content as their absolute condition to signify, to mean something. But all in supporting them, the morphological content does not appear in total cognitive states in a direct manner; rather, morphological content indirectly chromatically illuminates total cognitive states. Morphological content is precondition of total cognitive states, but it is not explicitly present in them. It is somehow similar to your articulating whatever you write now with all that background knowledge of yours as its support. But it is an absolute precondition for the quality of your writing that you do not take the explicit form of your background support all the way down on the board with you. Rather, you do your own shtick, and wisely let the background illuminate your explicit efforts. There has to be a balance here between the subsymbolic support and between the thetic symbolic phase. You steal from your ancestors' pool and you try to contribute your own quality. In the lucky case you may succeed.