Excellent ideas! Thanks. On June 5, 2017 8:01:43 PM PDT, Carl Tollander <[email protected]> wrote: >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 ☣ <[email protected]> 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!
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