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Symbol Grounding Precedes Interpretation
- Source :
- Biosemiotics. 14:561-568
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- Deacon speculates on the origin of interpretation of signs using autocatalytic origin of life models and Peircean terminology. I explain why interpretation evolved only later as a triadic intervention between symbols and actions. In all organisms the passive one-dimensional genetic informational symbol sequences are converted to active functional proteins or nucleic acids by three-dimensional folding. This symbol grounding is a direct symbol-to-action conversion. It is universal throughout all evolution. Folding is entirely a lawful physical process, leaving neither freedom nor necessity for interpretation. Similarly, the initial converse action-to-symbol conversion of sensory inputs also leaves no freedom for interpretation until after the action-to-symbol conversion.
Details
- ISSN :
- 18751350 and 18751342
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Biosemiotics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........849801e563461e43827fdc3447179e7f