External diagrammatization and iconic brain co-evolution

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ID10738607
AuthorsLorenzo Magnani (0000-0003-2344-4379, University of Pavia, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume2011
Issue186
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSemiotica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-1998 • E-ISSN: 1613-3692
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/semi.2011.053
OpenAlexW2059416345
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

Our brains make up a series of signs and are engaged in making or manifesting or reacting to a series of signs: through this semiotic activity they are at the same time engaged in “being minds.” An important effect of this semiotic activity of brains is a continuous process of “externalization of the mind” that exhibits a new cognitive perspective on the mechanisms underlying the semiotic emergence of abductive processes of meaning formation. I consider this process of externalization interplay critical in analyzing the relation between meaningful semiotic internal resources and devices and their dynamical interactions with the externalized semiotic materiality suitably stocked in the environment. The last part of the paper will describe some aspects of this interplay between external diagrammatization and internal recapitulation showing the specificity of their co-evolution

Aesthetics · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Externalization · Materiality (auditing) · Meaning (existential) · Perspective (graphical) · Process (computing) · Relation (database) · Semiotics · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Origins and Evolution of Life · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Social Psychology

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