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- Aguiar, Daniella, et al.
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Creativity as niche construction and some examples in theatrical dance
- 2017
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Ingår i: Annals of the X Brazilian International Meeting on Cognitive Science - EBICC 2015. - : Sociedade Brasileira de Ciencia Cognitiva - SBCC.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Creativity can be regarded as a property of semiotic resource exploration and niche construction. More specifically, and according to this perspective, creativity is distributed, in cognitive niches, as opportunities for niche-construction. Artistic cognitive niches represent established ways to exploit available artistic semiotic resources. When such opportunities are explored so that new relations between cognition and artistic semiotic resources are established (i.e., the artistic cognitive niche is constructed), then creativity is observed. This process of niche construction involves the transformation of problem spaces ("a branching-tree of achievable situations") through the exploration of cognitive artifacts (in dance, for example, softwares, techniques, equipments such as dance shoes, stage, dance and music notations). Our approach is supported by specific examples in history. In each of these examples, the introduction of artifacts changed not only how to make dance, but also the very concept of dance, opening opportunities for the exploration of new niches.
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- Aguiar, Daniella, et al.
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Intersemiotic translation and transformational creativity
- 2015
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Ingår i: Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics. - : Hellenic Semiotic Society. - 2459-2943. ; 1:2, s. 11-21
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we approach a case of intersemiotic translation as a paradigmatic example of Boden’s ‘transformational creativity’ category. To develop our argument, we consider Boden’s fundamental notion of ‘conceptual space’ as a regular pattern of semiotic action, or ‘habit’ (sensu Peirce). We exemplify with Gertrude Stein’s intersemiotic translation of Cézanne and Picasso’s proto-cubist and cubist paintings. The results of Stein’s IT transform the conceptual space of modern literature, constraining it towards new patterns of semiosis. Our association of Boden’s framework to describe a cognitive creative phenomenon with a philosophically robust theory of meaning results in a cognitive semiotic account of IT.
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- Atã, Pedro, et al.
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Emergent Sign-Action Classical Ballet As A Self-Organized And Temporally Distributed Semiotic Process
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy. - : Association of cultural pragma. - 2036-4091. ; 11:2, s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We explore Peirce's pragmatic conception of sign action, as a distributed and emergent view of cognition and exemplify with the emergence of classical ballet. In our approach, semiosis is a temporally distributed process in which a regular tendency towards certain future outcomes emerges out of a history of sign actions. Semiosis self-organizes in time, in a process that continuously entails the production of more signs. Emergence is a ubiquitous condition in this process: the translation of signs into signs cannot be inferred from the properties of the components of a semiotic triad alone, but has to take into account a complex interaction between a micro-semiotic and macro-semiotic level of description. This interaction can be understood as an interplay of potentialities and tendencies, or upward constitutive determinative relations and downward selective determinative relations. According to this view, emergence is a central defining condition of processes of meaning. Ballet is a sign in action. The emergence of classical ballet is a self-regulatory process, in which a system of different kinds of cognitive artifacts (musical, bodily/motor, spatial/architectonic) and agents obtained a stable semiotic relation throughout many phases of development between the 16th and the 19th Century. One case is the development of the verticality of dance in classical ballet as a semiotic relation connecting proscenium arch stages, dancing bodies, and audiences. This development is micro-semiotically determined by the spatial constraints of the proscenium arch stage, and macro-semiotically determined by a historical construction of the dancing body as a sign within a network of semiotic chains, such as the intersemiotic regulation of body of the dancer by principles coming from painting. This is not only the emergence of actual meaning, but also the emergence of an open-ended field of potential and general meanings, an autonomous tendency of development. To say that ballet, as sign action, emerges, is to say that cognitive artifacts such as dancer's bodies, stages and audience's point of view, musical compositions, costumes, all sorts of supporting institutions, etc, constitute a niche for sign action, interacting according to tendencies of development that didn't exist before.
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- Atã, Pedro, et al.
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Habit in Semiosis : Two Different Perspectives Based on Hierarchical Multi-level System Modeling and Niche Construction Theory
- 2016
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Ingår i: Consensus on Peirce's Concept of Habit. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319459202 - 9783319459189 ; , s. 109-119
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Habit in semiosis can be modeled both as a macro-level in a hierarchical multi-level system where it functions as boundary conditions for emergence of semiosis, and as a cognitive niche produced by an ecologically-inherited environment of cognitive artifacts. According to the first perspective, semiosis is modeled in terms of a multilayered system, with micro functional entities at the lower-level and with higher-level processes being mereologically composed of these lower-level entities. According to the second perspective, habits are embedded in ecologically-inherited environments of signs that co-evolve with cognition. Both descriptions offer a novel approximation of Peirce’s semiotics and theoretical findings in other areas (hierarchy theory, evolutionary biology), suggesting new frameworks to approach the concept of habit integrated with its role in semiosis.
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- Atã, Pedro, et al.
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Iconic semiosis and representational efficiency in the London Underground Diagram
- 2014
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Ingår i: Cognitive Semiotics. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1662-1425 .- 2235-2066. ; 7:2, s. 177-190
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The icon is the type of sign connected to efficient representational features, and its manipulation reveals more information about its object. The London Underground Diagram (LUD) is an iconic artifact and a well-known example of representational efficiency, having been copied by urban transportation systems worldwide. This paper investigates the efficiency of the LUD in the light of different conceptions of iconicity. We stress that a specialized representation is an icon of the formal structure of the problem for which it has been specialized. By embedding such rules of action and behavior, the icon acts as a semiotic artifact distributing cognitive effort and participating in niche construction.
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- Atã, Pedro, et al.
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Multilevel poetry translation as a problem-solving task
- 2016
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Ingår i: Cognitive Semiotics. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1662-1425 .- 2235-2066. ; 9:2, s. 139-147
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Poems are treated by translators as hierarchical multilevel systems. Here we propose the notion of 'multilevel poetry translation' to characterize such cases of poetry translation in terms of selection and rebuilding of a multilevel system of constraints across languages. Different levels of a poem correspond to different sets of components that asymmetrically constrain each other (e. g., grammar, lexicon, syntactic construction, prosody, rhythm, typography, etc.). This perspective allows a poem to be approached as a thinking-tool: an 'experimental lab' which submits language to unusual conditions and provides a scenario to observe the emergence of new patterns of semiotic behaviour as a result. We describe this operation as a problem-solving task, and exemplify with Augusto de Campos' Portuguese translation of John Donne's poem 'The Expiration.'
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- Atã, Pedro, PhD candidate, 1990-, et al.
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O externalismo semiótico ativo de C. S. Peirce e a cantoria de viola como signo em ação : The active semiotic externalism of C. S. Peirce and the "Cantoria de viola" as a sign in action
- 2021
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Ingår i: Trans/Form/Ação. - : Universidade Estadual Paulista, Departamento de Filosofia. - 0101-3173 .- 1980-539X. ; 44:3, s. 177-204
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The main purpose of this work is to provide a semiotic ontology for redescription of active cognitive externalism, recently developed by the paradigm 4E (embodied, embedded, enactive, extended cognition). In our approach, distributed cognitive systems (DCSs) are described as semiosis, signs in action. We explored the relationship between semiosis and cognition, as conceived by C. S. Peirce, in association with the notion of distributed cognitive system (DCS). We introduce Peircean externalist approach with an emphasis on the notion of temporal distribution of semiosis, and describe DCSs, and their elements, as "sign in action". To develop this argument, we describe an example of DCS -- verbal-musical improvisation of repente, repentismo, or viola singing. It is a phenomenon of verbal-musical improvisation that takes the form of a challenge in versified oral poetry. We describe the phenomenon as the embodiment of the formal structure of a cognitive task and an inferential process. This embodiment corresponds to a semiotization of the repente performances as DCSs. The temporally distributed tendency of repentismo organizes the DCS as a system that performs metasemiotic experiments on the action of signs.
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- Atã, Pedro, et al.
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Semiosis is cognitive niche construction
- 2019
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Ingår i: Semiotica. - Berlin : Walter de Gruyter. - 0037-1998 .- 1613-3692. ; 2019:228, s. 3-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Here we describe Peircean post-1903 semiosis as a processualist conception of meaning, and relate it to contemporary active externalism in Philosophy of Cognitive Science, especially through the notion of cognitive niche construction. In particular, we shall consider the possibility of integrating (a) the understanding of “semiosis as process” within Peirce’s mature semiotics with (b) an elaboration of the concept of cognitive niche from the point of view of niche construction theory and process biology research.
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- Atã, Pedro, et al.
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Semiotic Niche Construction in Musical Meaning
- 2017
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Ingår i: Recherches Sémiotiques / Semiotic Inquiry. - Toronto : Canadian Semiotic Research Association. - 0229-8651 .- 1923-9920. ; 37:1-2, s. 75-87
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- According to Peirce’s pragmatic semiotics, meaning (semiosis) is not an infused concept, but a power to engender interpretants. Semiosis is a triadic, context-sensitive (situated), interpreter-dependent (dialogic), materially extended (embodied and distributed) dynamic process. Although meaning is context-sensitive and materially extended, its locus is not well-captured by the notion of an environment. Inspired by biological concepts, we suggest the locus of meaning to be a niche. Here, we develop a semiotic account of musical meaning that emphasizes the location of musical signs in semiotic niches.
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- Atã, Pedro, et al.
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The London Underground Diagram as an example of cognitive niche construction
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. - Austin. - 9780991196722 ; , s. 114-117
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The London Underground Diagram (LUD) is a cognitive artifact and a well-known example of representational efficiency, having been copied by urban transportation systems worldwide. Here we describe the design of the LUD as an example of cognitive niche construction happening through iconic meaning of a problem space. We argue that the LUD's meaning is grounded on the offer of opportunities for action through diagrammaticity. Our examination suggest that iconicity is at the core the cognitive niche construction.
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