{"id":8829,"date":"2025-03-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8829"},"modified":"2024-12-14T20:28:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T20:28:41","slug":"looking-at-robert-prinzs-chapter-2024-meaning-relies-on-codes-but-depends-on-agents-part-3-of-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8829","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Robert Prinz’s Chapter (2024) “Meaning Relies on Codes But Depends on Agents” (Part 3 of 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

0416 Here is another way of looking at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agent3<\/sub> of semiotic agency2<\/sub> is no longer the agent3<\/sub> that was present originally.  The new agent3<\/sub> effectively games an established semiotic agency2<\/sub> by changing its underlying signficance1<\/sub>.  But, it is not an intentional change.  It is more like a subtle change in landscape that eventually alters the course of a river.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0417 So, coded semiotic agency2<\/sub><\/em> finds itself within the domain of a new agent3<\/sub> and potential1<\/sub><\/em> and the new domain<\/em> is going to “game” the semiotic agency2<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0418 Options?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, the original code can go out of business, to be replaced by semiotic agency2<\/sub> from the new management3,1<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original code can continue to operate irrespective of the semiotic agency2<\/sub> that the new management3,1<\/sub> is actualizing.  In this case, the new management3,1<\/sub> may use the original code as a functional component within a more comprehensive semiotic agency2<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original code that manifests as a functional component within a more comprehensive semiotic agency2<\/sub><\/em> may start to change, in response to its new normal context3<\/sub> and potential1<\/sub>, through empedoclements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0419 In short, modularity and hierarchy among semiotic agencies2<\/sub> may also be regarded as modularity and hierarchy among agents3<\/sub> and their significance1<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus, the title of Prinz’s chapter is accounted for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0420 Section 11.4 lists topics in neural codes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Section 11.5 raises the question as to whether meaning is in<\/em> or from<\/em> codes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Section 11.6 wonders how interpretation delivers meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These sections all flow from Barbieri’s insights into the all-encompassing nature of codes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, codes are all-encompassing because the Sharov and Tonnessen’s noumenal overlay is all-encompassing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0421 For neural codes, consider a human agent who sees an object on a sunny day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Specular reflection of photons from a solid thing<\/em> (SVs<\/sub>) in the external world <\/em>(A) stands for a thing with matter and form <\/em>(SOs<\/sub>) in regards to the functioning of pattern-recognizing specifiers in my occipital lobe<\/em> (SIs<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A thing with matter and form<\/em> (SVe<\/sub>) stands for an exemplar of ‘what it is’ <\/em>(SOe<\/sub>) in my world<\/em> (B) according to specialized exemplar-recognizing modules<\/em> outside of my occipital lobe<\/em> (SIe<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0422 I can ask, “How do I experience this?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can ask, “What is happening?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A juxtaposition between the category-based nested form containing semiotic agency2<\/sub><\/em> and the content-level of the scholastic interscope for how humans think<\/em> (appearing in Razie Mah’s blog for October, 2023, titled, Looking at John Deely’s Book (2010) “Semiotic Animal”<\/em>) provides an interesting answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Does a comparison work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0423 A human agent3<\/sub> asks, “What is happening?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is happening3<\/sub><\/em> is a content-level normal context3a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It3a<\/sub> makes me wonder about the possibility that ‘something’ is happening1a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A neural code-based S&T noumenal overlay2c<\/sub><\/em> presents an impression2a<\/sub> of an exemplar sign-object2c<\/sub> (SOe<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The potential of vision1a<\/sub> offers the possibility of identifying what it2a<\/sub> (SVs<\/sub>) is1a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, maybe, in the above figure, the entire lower nested form fits into the actuality2<\/sub> of semiotic agency2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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