Abstract
Abstract What is the relationship between consciousness and semiosis? This article attempts to provide some clues to answer this question. For doing it, we explore the application of the Integral model to semiotics; that is to say, the metatheory that integrates the inside, the outside, the individual, and the collective dimension, on one hand and, on the other hand, the levels of development, states and types of consciousness. Our principal hypothesis is that the semiosis depends on the “subjectal” form where the self is located temporarily or permanently. To validate it, we analyze the way in which the universe of meaning changes between the self located below the subject (as a form), and the self located beyond of it. According to the Integral semiotics point of view outlined here, the relationship between consciousness and the meaning has to do with the reduction or expansion of the subjectal spectrum, and the trajectory of the self along of it.
Highlights
At present, there is a lot of development about perception (Petitot 2009; DarraultHarris 2009; Dissanayake 2009)
Our specific articulation between Wilber’s theory and semiotics arises from the need to understand the relationship between “subjectal forms” (Giorgi 2012) and semiosis begun by the founder of psychosemiotics and human ethosemiotics, Ivan Darrault-Harris
If one remains in the epistemology of “Subjectal Semiotics,” even with the intention of expanding it into an Integral Semiotics, we should give to the trans-subject a modal definition
Summary
There is a lot of development about perception (Petitot 2009; DarraultHarris 2009; Dissanayake 2009). The Integral metatheory (or even paradigm) has the categories to continue the path begun by Wilber because has the potential to show how “science, art, spirituality, and everything in-between provide valid insights that, when taken as a whole, provide the most complete view of human consciousness currently available” (Helfrich 2007) This approach could help us to better understand the consciousness from the perspective of semiotics, because it integrates levels of development, states and types of consciousness. When applied to a research methodology it means that one aspires to cover as many perspectives as possible” (Helfrich 2007) It is called “integral” because this model integrates four dimensions, aspects or planes of the human being, namely, the inside, the outside, the individual and collective. We will outline the characteristics of some trans-modalities that allow us to identify it
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