Abstract
Abstract The object of research is to clarify the connections between non-anthropogenic mind and culture as sign systems. Investigation of such an object discloses the perspectives on construction of the generalized model of mind and can help to build the bridge between traditional and digital humanities. The subject of traditional humanities is natural human activity; the subject of digital humanities is computer-based forms of activity and communication. Finding signs created not only by human but also by natural circumstances helps to define the sign system that unites the natural (non-anthropogenic) and artificial kinds of mind. Methodology of research includes the principles of semiotics previously developed by Charles Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure and expanded by Yuri Lotman and Boris Uspensky. Semiotic interpretation of mind as the object of culture allows the building of a generalized model of mind as one of textual constructions, presenting the history of mankind as the replacement of natural events by secondary models. The author concludes that the revealing of a generalized model of mind opens new opportunities for the construction of the intelligent activity strictly interpreted as special sign systems. Semiotic studies interpret culture as a rationality making machine, and activity of mind is caused by the work of such a machine. Because of that, if traditional meaning sign systems were estimated as human-made kinds of complex of primary signs, then modern statements help to see the absence of an irresistible limit to interpret such complex as a nature-made but non-anthropogenic phenomenon.
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IntroductionWittgenstein’s idea that language defines the limits for the mind and theory of sign systems meaning that culture is a complex of codes of communication and
Wittgenstein’s idea that language defines the limits for the mind and theory of sign systems meaning that culture is a complex of codes of communication and behavior can provide for the building of a mind model
Many more problems arise in the case of artificial languages, which are used in mathematics and formal logic for constructing models of artificially intelligent activity
Summary
Wittgenstein’s idea that language defines the limits for the mind and theory of sign systems meaning that culture is a complex of codes of communication and. Discussions of the problems of mind, modeled on the basis of semiotics, began in the 1960s. One of the main branches in this field was the reconstruction of intelligent activity as sign systems (Zemanek 1966; Pospelov 1975). We can note discussions on the interaction of culture, intelligent activity, and computer programming (Lotman and Uspensky 1993; Bedau 1998; Parisi and Cangelosi 2002.). Our work continues this third branch of research. Semiotics should find common fields for traditional humanities and digital humanities
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