From: Arlo Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 03 2004 - 17:17:56 BST
> > > It's nice to learn that "primary experience" is a symbolic artifact, a
> > > representation of reality that is less than reality.
> >
> > Except, that this is the opposite of what I've been saying. :-)
>
>Except by your own theory, everything you've been saying consists of
>"semiotic structures" which are "not real." :-)
Exactly!!! But this does not mean semiotic structures are not useful.
Language allows us to communicate, to share attention, to plan, to
remember, to organize experience, etc. Without semiosis we would be stuck
with "nothing" but a ongoing stream of "primary experience". We would have
no way to remember, categorize or represent this experience in any form.
We just need to remember that our "representation" of reality is 100%
structured by values and saliences of whatever semiotic system we are build
these representation "through".
Arlo
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