{"id":8839,"date":"2025-03-26T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2024-12-14T20:33:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T20:33:37","slug":"category-based-diagrams-of-biosemiosis-especially-codes-in-biology-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8839","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Robert Prinz&#8217;s Chapter (2024) &#8220;Meaning Relies on Codes But Depends on Agents&#8221; (Part 5 of 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0431 In contrast to the capitalization of the term, &#8220;code&#8221;, if I go back, say 10,000 years before this time, before the potentiation of civilization, then I would find that the word, &#8220;code&#8221;, could not be uttered in hand-speech talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In human evolution, language evolves in&nbsp;<em>the milieu of hand-talk.<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;Speech is added to hand-talk, as an adornment, at the start of our species,&nbsp;<em>Homo sapiens<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See&nbsp;<em>Comments on Michael Tomasello&#8217;s Arc of Inquiry (1999-2019)<\/em>&nbsp;as well as the masterwork,&nbsp;<em>The Human Niche<\/em>&nbsp;(by Razie Mah, available at smashwords and other e-book venues).&nbsp;&nbsp;Portions of the former may be found in Razie Mah&#8217;s blog for January through March, 2024.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0432&nbsp;<em>Hand-talk words<\/em>&nbsp;picture and point to&nbsp;<em>their referents<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Consequently,&nbsp;<em>the problem of definition<\/em>&nbsp;is resolved before it can even be raised.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The referent<\/em>&nbsp;exists before&nbsp;<em>the gestural word<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Otherwise, what would&nbsp;<em>the gestural word<\/em>&nbsp;image or indicate?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless,&nbsp;<em>hand talk<\/em>&nbsp;fits into&nbsp;<em>code biology<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide139.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide139.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide139.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide139-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0433 The agent cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For hand and hand-speech talk, the agent belongs to&nbsp;<em>the Lebenswelt that we evolved in<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The linguistic manual-brachial word gesture<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;(SV<sub>s<\/sub>) stands for the referent that it images or points to<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;(SO<sub>s<\/sub>) in regards to a specifying code<sub>3b<\/sub>performed by a specific region of the hominin brain<sub>1b<\/sub>&nbsp;(SI<sub>s<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hominin agent does not have to ask, &#8220;What is happening?&#8221;, because &#8216;something&#8217; is always happening.&nbsp;&nbsp;All the hominin needs to do is implicit abstraction.&nbsp;&nbsp;Because hand-talk words are images or indications, then implicit abstraction is called for.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8220;Decoding&#8221; enters the picture when the word-gestures are sufficiently different as to be rapidly interpreted on the grounds that they are easy to recognize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide140.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide140.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide140.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Slide140-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, meaning relies on codes, but agents cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0431 In contrast to the capitalization of the term, &#8220;code&#8221;, if I go back, say 10,000 years before this time, before the potentiation of civilization, then I would find that the word, &#8220;code&#8221;, could not be uttered in hand-speech talk. 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