Beyond self and other: On the neurosemiotic emergence of intersubjectivity

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  • Donald Favareau University of California, Los Angeles, 3300 Rolfe Hall, Los Angeles, California, 90095

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.05

Abstract

The explosive growth over the last two decades of neuroscience, cognitive science, and “consciousness studies” as generally conceived, remains as yet unaccompanied by a corresponding development in the establishment of an explicitly semiotic understanding of how the relations of sign exchange at the neuronal level function in the larger network of psychologically accessible sign exchange. This article attempts a preliminary foray into the establishment of just such a neurosemiotic. It takes, as its test case and as its point of departure, recent discoveries from the neurobiological research on viuso-motor transformations and on the widespread cortical phenomena of selectively tuned, single-neuron response to argue for a vision of “intersubjectivity” whereby the ens rationis arising as a function of the neuronal semiosphere may be abstracted, constructed, and shared mutually across agents.

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Published

2002-12-31

How to Cite

Favareau, D. (2002). Beyond self and other: On the neurosemiotic emergence of intersubjectivity. Sign Systems Studies, 30(1), 57–100. https://doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.05

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