{"id":8935,"date":"2025-04-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8935"},"modified":"2025-05-04T20:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T20:39:39","slug":"looking-at-arthur-reber-frantisek-baluska-and-william-miller-jr-s-chapter-2024-the-sentient-cell-part-3-of-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=8935","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Arthur Reber, Frantisek Baluska and William Miller Jr’s Chapter (2024) “The Sentient Cell” (Part 3 of 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

0624 Here is a picture of what a sentient cell is “conscious” of,<\/em> as it appears in a three-level interscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

0625 Yes, this interscope is both a category-based and a semiotic arrangement.  The interscope is not suitable for empirio-schematic inquiry because science investigates actualities.  In Semiotic Agency,<\/em> Sharov and Tonnessen fashion a way to express this interscope in terms of Peirce’s secondness.  The S&T noumenal overlay<\/em> supports empirio-schematic research<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0626 Now, I want to take my examination in a different direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In section 13.2.5, the authors claim that non-biological entities cannot become sentient agents.  This claim reminds me of the problem faced by biologists, in contrast to physicists and chemists.  Semiotic agency2<\/sub> is composed of both being (relationality) and matter (physicality).  Consequently, in order to understand the actuality of semiotic agency2<\/sub>,<\/em> it2<\/sub> must be placed in a normal context3<\/sub><\/em> with potential1<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0627 Ironically, the same goes with the spoken word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0628 The juxtaposition is suggestive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0629 An agent3<\/sub><\/em> and a definition3<\/sub><\/em> both follow the logics of thirdness<\/em>.  The logics of thirdness are exclusion, complement and alignment.  Here, one agent3<\/sub> excludes other agents3<\/sub>.  The cell membrane2<\/sub> plays a role in that exclusion.  Similarly, the definition3<\/sub> of one spoken word2<\/sub> must exclude the definitions3<\/sub> of other spoken words2<\/sub> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notably, definition3<\/sub> does has not have anything like a cell membrane2<\/sub>.  Rather, spoken words (parole<\/em>) constitute a system of differences3<\/sub>.  The Greimas square proves useful for teasing out how one spoken word is distinct from other spoken words.  (See points 0586 through 0591.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0630 Semiotic agency2<\/sub><\/em> and a spoken term2<\/sub><\/em> follow the logics of secondness<\/em>.  These logics include the laws contradiction and noncontradiction.  If a contradiction exists, then there must be a way to either resolve or formalize the contradiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For semiotic agency2<\/sub>, one source of contradiction comes from the hierarchy of agent and subagents, as well as cooperation (and competition) among subagents.  If the agent and the subagents have difficulty coordinating2<\/sub>, then the agent3<\/sub> may fail in regards to its intentions1<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0631 But, what are those intentions1<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are those intentions1<\/sub> what the living cell3<\/sub> is sentient of2<\/sub>?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If so, then I suppose that semiotic agency2<\/sub> involves being conscious of ‘something’1<\/sub> and this ‘something’1<\/sub> could be labeled with spoken words2<\/sub>, as if a living sentient cell could speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0632 ‘Final causality’1<\/sub><\/em> and ‘meaning, presence and message’1<\/sub><\/em> follow the logics of firstness<\/em>.  Firstness is inclusive and allows contradictions.  So, the intentions1<\/sub> of an agent3<\/sub> cohere to the meaning, presence and message1<\/sub> of a… hmmm… spoken word2<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uh oh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The comparison<\/em> starts to break up<\/em>.  It is as if definition3<\/sub><\/em> is what an agent3<\/sub> does<\/em>.  An agent3<\/sub><\/em> actualizes something2<\/sub> that may compare to definition2(3)<\/sub><\/em> in order to bring semiotic agency2<\/sub><\/em> into relation with the possibility of ‘final causality’1<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does this imply?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is definition2(3)<\/sub> is built into semiotic agency2<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can spoken words2(2)<\/sub> label what the agent3<\/sub> is conscious of?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0633 To me, this suggests that final causality1<\/sub> undergirds the actualities of semiotic agency2<\/sub> through a passage into meaning, presence and message2(1)<\/sub>, as if meaning, presence and message2(1)<\/sub> (now incorporated into semiotic agency2<\/sub>) reify final causality1<\/sub> for the agent3<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0634 In other words, the agent3<\/sub> defines2(3)<\/sub> through its life and sentience (SIs<\/sub> and SIe<\/sub>) actualities that it is conscious of2(2)<\/sub> (SVs<\/sub>, SOs<\/sub>, SVe<\/sub> and SOe<\/sub>) by embodying meaning, presence and message2(1)<\/sub> as manifesting the potential of ‘final causality’1<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0635 Does this make sense?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entire nested form that we<\/em> (humans in our current Lebenswelt)<\/em> associate with<\/em> definition3<\/sub><\/em> becomes a characteristic of semiotic agency2<\/sub>.<\/em>  Therefore, all the elements of how to define a spoken word<\/em> enter into the realm of actuality2<\/sub>. Definition3<\/sub> gets transubstantiated (a change of category) down to actuality2<\/sub>.  Meaning, presence and message1<\/sub> gets transubstantiated up to actuality2<\/sub>.  And, the spoken word2<\/sub> becomes what the living entity would be conscious of, if it were conscious2<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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