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0592 What is Pavlov up to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a modern scientist, who has adopted the precepts of the Positivist’s judgment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0593 At the end of this chapter on non-human agency, the authors warn against anthropomorphic theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearly, that is not the only danger facing biosemiotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that a word in common use<\/em> is used as the label for a class of psychological models<\/em> attests to the way that<\/em> (for triumphalist science) models may be used to overshadow and occlude their noumena<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pavlov’s experiment<\/em> is widely regarded as foundational in psychological empirical science<\/em>.  Yet, this examination suggests that, even before designing his experiment, Pavlov might have imagined that “anticipation” is what the noumenon must be,<\/em> when it came to animal behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0593 If correct, Pavlov’s work<\/em> demonstrates that phenomenology is practiced in the formation of social sciences<\/em> long before Husserl develops an explicit methodology for arriving at what the noumenon must be<\/em>.  This is discussed in points 0120 to 0129.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The word, “anticipation” papers over the noumenon for a wide variety of psychological phenomena<\/em>.  But, some scientists treat the word as if it is only a technical term in the scientific discipline of psychology.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0594 This conclusion is far more difficult to grasp that any warning about anthropomorphic theories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today’s psychologists think that “anticipation” is the thing itself<\/em> when it comes to operant and instrumental conditioning<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0596 On top of that, neither “anticipation as noumenon”<\/em> nor models of conditioned responses<\/em> are semiotic.  They do not face the reality that the thing itself<\/em> can only be recognized within a purely relational structure<\/em>.  The noumena for biology, psychology and sociology<\/em> are not as obvious as the noumena of the empirical sciences<\/em>.  They are not obvious because they are actualities2<\/sub> that only manifest in their proper normal contexts3<\/sub> and potentials1<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, at some level of awareness, both social scientists and phenomenologists have always known this.  Sharov and Tonnessen’s noumenal overlay<\/em> may be the first attempt to ground noumena in the biological and social sciences <\/em>in the realness of triadic relations<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0597 This brings me back to agency in non-human organisms<\/em>.  The interactions between agents and subagents, as well as between agents, has been a focus on dyadic research for the modern era.  These interactions will need to be reframed for the postmodern era of triadic relations<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0598 Indeed, take a look at the following figure, depicting the semiotic agency of Pavlov and his dogs as if they are subagents in a scientific institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Both the apparatus<\/em> and the dog in the sling<\/em> cohere to the relational structure of semiotic agency<\/em> (as formulated by the S&T noumenal overlay).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0599 But, look at that dashed line arrow<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder, “Is that arrow dyadic?  Or does it hide a triadic relation?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So concludes this examination of chapter four of Semiotic Agency<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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