@article{Rodríguez Gómez_2019, title={Cartographies of the mind: Generalization and relevance in cognitive landscapes}, volume={47}, url={https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/SSS.2019.47.3-4.02}, DOI={10.12697/SSS.2019.47.3-4.02}, abstractNote={<p>The problem of relevance, at individual agent scale – or how we decide what is adequate for our interpretation of the signs we encounter in the world – is a question that keeps reappearing in semiotics and other disciplines concerned with meaning. In this article I propose an approximation on relevance that conceives meaning as a trajectory across a cognitive landscape. Unlike conventional accounts on relevance, which presuppose mental processes built on feature-based representations, my proposal suggests conceiving cognition as a fluid and emergent field of attractors basins that become specified and modified when experiences appear, and conceiving meaning as a trajectory across the cognitive field. Consequently, I suggest that when cognitive landscapes better fit world experience, agents’ categorizations will be more relevant. My proposal is mainly supported by two approaches: the enactivist notion of structural coupling and the theories of dynamic neural populations of Walter Freeman III.</p>}, number={3/4}, journal={Sign Systems Studies}, author={Rodríguez Gómez, Sergio}, year={2019}, month={Dec.}, pages={382–399} }