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Meaning = Life (+ Culture): An outline of a unified biocultural theory of meaning

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

The article presents the outlines of an integrative theory of meaning based on the concept of value, understood both as a biological and as a socio-cultural category, synthesizing ideas from evolutionary and developmental psychology, semiotics and cybernetics. The proposal distinguishes between four types of meaning systems, cue-based, associational, mimetic and symbolic, forming an evolutionary and epigenetic hierarchy. The theory is applied to phylogenetic and human ontogenetic development, pointing out significant parallels between the two processes, involving both continuity and discontinuity between the different levels. Since one of the basic tenets of the theory is that only living systems have intrinsic value, which is a necessary and sufficient condition for possessing the category meaning, negative implications are drawn for the meaning potential of (current) artificial systems.

Publiceringsår

2002

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

253-296

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Evolution of Communication

Volym

4

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Ämne

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Nyckelord

  • language
  • epigenesis
  • meaning
  • mimesis
  • robots
  • signs
  • conventions
  • value

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1569-9757