Neuromorphology of meaning

Alessandro Sarti

Davide Barbieri

pp. 55-74

in: Dario Compagno (ed), Quantitative semiotic analysis, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

This contribution continues our work on the constitution of visual forms; more specifically, of semiotic plastic forms. We examine emergence from the perspective described by Paolo Fabbri: "unlike logic, the point is not to construct preliminary logical systems and then see how they work in language, but to assemble some very simple units and then observe emergent properties." (Fabbri 1998, p. 10, our translation). The aim is to 'see how, at a certain point, some emergent properties organize themselves and acquire meaning, which is exactly the opposite of old semiotics and old logics." (Ibid., our translation).