“Noise” as a key to semiosis: the brain and culture (40 years later)

The article explores the context important for analysis of Lotman’s talk at seminar on problem semiogenesis and functional specialization cerebral hemispheres as a model intellectual processes, which was held in Tartu. Forty years later, author anal­yses changes viewpoints proposed model, taking into account data experi­mental neuroscience. emphasizes fundamental value topicality Yuri ideas production meaning individual cross-cultural space.