Toward a Cognitive Semiotics

The Cognitive Semiotics of Film

Transcending Semiotics: Toward Understanding Design for Understanding

In this paper I intend to examine several epistemological difficulties one quite naturally encounters within traditional semiotics, especially when trying to apply it to design (industrial design and product semantics in particular). Disciplines Communication This book chapter is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/295

Consciousness and Self in Language. a View from Cognitive Semiotics

Consciousness is a subjective experience. To science it matters little whether there is an agent behind conscious experience – things like holding a belief, making a decision, remembering a person, attend to an object, act in a situation –; science (in this case neuroscience) is instead concerned with describing what processes in the brain are responsible for that experience. And yet we believe...

Toward a ’chaotic’ cognitive architecture

The increasing complexity of humanoid robots and their expected performance in real dynamic environments demands an equally complex, autonomous and dynamic solution. The goal of this project is the design and implementation of a cognitive architecture based on the enactive paradigm of cognition. The core of this architecture will make use of tools from Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Theory, and es...

Creativity and self-organization: contributions from cognitive science and semiotics

What sort of contribution has Cognitive Science to offer to the understanding of creativity? Is it appropriate to investigate creative processes from a mechanistic perspective or do they involve subjective elements which cannot in principle be investigated from such a perspective? These two basic questions will guide this paper which investigates creativity focusing on the nature of abductive r...