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}Stephen - yes, I agree - one really can't say where 'consciousness'
ends; nor can we outline the boundaries of the mind.
Therefore - yes, words are indeed 'frail vessels' - and it's
difficult to set their parameters/function and even, to try to
confine words to single meanings.
Semiosis insists on context, insists on networking with other
informational sources, insists - on Relations.
Edwina
On Sun 18/02/18 12:38 PM , "Stephen C. Rose" [email protected]
sent:
I have no idea where consciousness ends. Nor of the boundaries of
mind. If everything is signs, then a substantial part of everything
may be mystery, awaiting our understanding. This is one reason why I
think words themselves are frail vessels. To set their parameters or
even their utility is not easy. Isn't that one reason why semiotics
exists -- so we can be appropriately vague, even about terms that
border on the ontological?
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
Stephen, list:
'Mind' is not the same as consciousness. Therefore, to suggest, as
Peirce does, that Mind is functional within non-organic systems, does
not mean that these systems are conscious.
Complex adaptive systems are not grounded in a 'materialist'
ideology, but fit in well with the Mind processing that is Peircean
semiosis. The nature of a CAS is that it is self-organized, with
perimeters, with a network of relations with other systems, and,
working within an ongoing dynamic and adaptive informational
processing. That obviously refers to Mind - and not just mechanical
interactions - which are unable to adapt and are not self-organizing.
Edwina
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