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v.3 (see PHP comments). Linked to from: A2, D-Intro.php, #D9, and e_Preface.php#notFluent.

expression


Conscious and unconscious awareness arises from differentiated sets of mental activity; foci around which our cognition temporarily orbits.

Conscious expression is the linear organization of the elements of these foci of awareness. fluency is the semiotic competence required to identify and translate their elements into a stream of communicative signs.

Whether externally or internally, expression is made, consciously or not, in response to the meaningful internal representations beings generate from the expression of their sensory mechanisms; it is recursive. expression then refers here to semiotic communication, to recognizing, interpreting, using, and responding to signs —whether, for instance, in form, action, sound, or light.

language is simply the recognition of a set of signs, the meaning of which has been informed by the macrocosm of metalanguage within which it develops. cultures are metalanguages within which human languages develop and then drive the development of cultures.

The expression we develop within the cultures of our ontogeny is foundational. Our fluency is ideally acquired then together with other elementary, cognitive and bio-mechanical capabilities, and is formative. As in later life we engage with expression in other cultures it commensurately founds our expression within these too.




expression


edit: 4 Feb 2024, written 10 Mar 2023.

expression refers here to any signal, sign or symbol, that a being generates, whether external or internal to itself, and whether or not it is consciously or deliberately generated. Its transmission may be through a biophysical channel e.g vocal, luminescence, neural, etc.; a virtual channel e.g text, artefact, smoke, etc.; or a bio-virtual channel e.g telephony, video, etc. It is the effective response of a being to its perception of an external and internal event, constructed from the meaningful internal representations it generates from the chemical, electrical, or electro-chemical expressions of its sensory mechanism.




artefact here is a back-formation (from Latin: arte "by skill" and facere/factum "make/made") to refer to creations made by any being e.g to the sculptured sand bowers of Pufferfish, or the ornately decorated play-house of the Bowerbird.



Pufferfish Bower.
A Pufferfish bower. ...more



Mind is a causally effective inner state.

open quotation mark.. endosemiotic tools (e.g. the immune system and the nervous system) are collectively responsible for the interaction of the organism with its social and physical world and constitute the fundament out of which so-called psychological reality, if any, of the organism will emerge.
The Great Chain of Semiosis. Investigating the Steps in the Evolution of Semiotic Competence. Jesper Hoffmeyer & Frederik Stjernfelt, 2015. Axel Springer SE.



open quotation mark..unlike non-living processes, the categorization of substances through processes of molecular recognition, as exhibited e.g. at the level of bacterial chemotaxis, already realizes the split between objects and properties. In many cases, several different compounds may serve exactly the same functional end implying that the process is fallible (while it makes little sense, by contrast, to conceive of pre-living processes as fallible) - in the sense that certain other compounds recognized and "approved" by the bacteria may nevertheless fail to support survival. E. coli is able to swim upstream in a sugar gradient due to its ability to recognize a range of carbohydrates (objects) from the partial shape of the perimeter of the molecules (properties) and, for the same reason, they will be deceived by artificial sweeteners with the same partial shape property, just like human beings will be so deceived. Molecular recognition may fail, leading the organism to accept irrelevant or even poisonous substances, a failure which is objectively measured through its consequences for survival.
"The Great Chain of Semiosis. Investigating the Steps in the Evolution of Semiotic Competence." p.8, Jesper Hoffmeyer & Frederik Stjernfelt, September 2015, Biosemiotics 9(1) DOI:10.1007/s12304-015-9247-y



Language: any system of sounds, gestures, symbols, or other signs that facilitates communication.




Microcosm / macrocosm: a macrocosm is a complex structure considered as an whole, a microcosm an element within it having a similar structure.




Metalanguage: a language or set of symbols that describes or defines another language.



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