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Arturo Carsetti According to molecular Biology, true invariance
(life) can exist only within the framework of ongoing autonomous
morphogenesis and vice versa. With respect to this secret
dialectics, life and cognition appear as indissolubly interlinked.
In this sense, for instance, the inner articulation of conceptual
spaces appears to be linked to an inner functional development
based on a continuous activity of selection and "anchorage"
realised on semantic grounds. It is the work of "invention" and g-
eration (in invariance), linked with the "rooting" of meaning,
which determines the evolution, the leaps and punctuated
equilibria, the conditions related to the unfo- ing of new
modalities of invariance, an invariance which is never simple
repetition and which springs on each occasion through deep-level
processes of renewal and recovery. The selection perpetrated by
meaning reveals its autonomy aboveall in its underpinning, in an
objective way, the ongoing choice of these new modalities. As such
it is not, then, concerned only with the game of "possibles,"
offering itself as a simple channel for pure chance, but with
providing a channel for the articulation of the " le" in the humus
of a semantic (and embodied) net in order to prepare the necessary
conditionsfor a continuousrenewal and recoveryof original
creativity. In effect, it is this autonomy in inventing new
possible modules of incompressibility
whichdeterminestheactualemergenceofnew(andtrue)creativity,
whichalsotakes place through the "narration" of the effected
construction.
Our ontology as well as our grammar are, as Quine affirms,
ineliminable parts of our conceptual contribution to our theory of
the world. It seems impossible to think of enti ties, individuals
and events without specifying and constructing, in advance, a
specific language that must be used in order to speak about these
same entities. We really know only insofar as we regiment our
system of the world in a consistent and adequate way. At the level
of proper nouns and existence functions we have, for instance, a
standard form of a regimented language whose complementary
apparatus consists of predicates, variables, quantifiers and truth
functions. If, for instance, the discoveries in the field of
Quantum Mechanics should oblige us, in the future, to abandon the
traditional logic of truth functions, the very notion of existence,
as established until now, will be chal lenged. These
considerations, as developed by Quine, introduce us to a conceptual
perspective like the "internal realist" perspective advocated by
Putnam whose principal aim is, for cer tain aspects, to link the
philosophical approaches developed respectively by Quine and
Wittgenstein. Actually, Putnam conservatively extends the approach
to the problem of ref erence outlined by Quine: in his opinion, to
talk of "facts" without specifying the language to be used is to
talk of nothing."
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.
Arturo Carsetti According to molecular Biology, true invariance
(life) can exist only within the framework of ongoing autonomous
morphogenesis and vice versa. With respect to this secret
dialectics, life and cognition appear as indissolubly interlinked.
In this sense, for instance, the inner articulation of conceptual
spaces appears to be linked to an inner functional development
based on a continuous activity of selection and "anchorage"
realised on semantic grounds. It is the work of "invention" and g-
eration (in invariance), linked with the "rooting" of meaning,
which determines the evolution, the leaps and punctuated
equilibria, the conditions related to the unfo- ing of new
modalities of invariance, an invariance which is never simple
repetition and which springs on each occasion through deep-level
processes of renewal and recovery. The selection perpetrated by
meaning reveals its autonomy aboveall in its underpinning, in an
objective way, the ongoing choice of these new modalities. As such
it is not, then, concerned only with the game of "possibles,"
offering itself as a simple channel for pure chance, but with
providing a channel for the articulation of the " le" in the humus
of a semantic (and embodied) net in order to prepare the necessary
conditionsfor a continuousrenewal and recoveryof original
creativity. In effect, it is this autonomy in inventing new
possible modules of incompressibility
whichdeterminestheactualemergenceofnew(andtrue)creativity,
whichalsotakes place through the "narration" of the effected
construction.
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