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Seeing, Thinking and Knowing - Meaning and Self-Organisation in Visual Cognition and Thought (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
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Seeing, Thinking and Knowing - Meaning and Self-Organisation in Visual Cognition and Thought (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
Series: Theory and Decision Library A:, 38
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The world perceived at the visual level is constituted not by
objects or static forms, but by processes appearing imbued with
meaning. As G. Kanizsa stated, at the visual level the line per se
does not exist: only the line which enters, goes behind, divides,
etc., a line evolving according to a precise holistic context, in
comparison with which function and meaning are indissolubly
interlinked. Just as the meaning of words is connected with a
universe of highly-dynamic functions and functional processes which
operate syntheses, cancellations, integrations, etc. (a universe
which can only be described in terms of symbolic dynamics), in the
same way, at the level of vision, we must continuously unravel and
construct schemata; we must assimilate and make ourselves available
for selection by the co-ordinated information penetrating from
external Reality. Lastly, we must interrelate all this with the
internal selection mechanisms through a precise "journey" into the
regions of intensionality.
In accordance with these intuitions, we may directly consider, from
the more general point of view of contemporary Self-organisation
theory, the network of meaningful programs living at the level of
neural systems as a complex one which articulates and develops,
functionally, within a "coupled universe" characterised by the
existence of a double selection: external and internal, the latter
regarding the universe of meaning. This network gradually posits
itself as the basis for the emergence of natural and meaningful
forms and the simultaneous, if indirect, surfacing of an
"I-subject-": as the basic instrument, in other words, for the
perception of real and meaningful processes, of "objects"possessing
meaning, aims, intentions, etc.: above all, of biological objects
possessing an inner plan and linked to the progressive expression
of a specific cognitive action.
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