The Symbolic Species¶
Deacon, T. W. (1997). The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain. W. W. Norton.
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- Symbolic Representation
- The structural insight is robust: a written word, a Hindu-Arabic numeral, a banknote, a national flag, a legal signature, an assembly opcode, a triplet of DNA bases coding for an amino acid, and arguably a bee's waggle dance all exhibit the same convention-bound signification logic, a cross-substrate pattern Deacon (1997) traces from cellular semiosis through animal communication to human symbolic competence.
This sourceCross-substrate account of symbolic competence tracing convention-bound signification from cellular and animal semiosis up through human language; situates symbolic representation as a structural pattern shared across biological substrates.
- The structural insight is robust: a written word, a Hindu-Arabic numeral, a banknote, a national flag, a legal signature, an assembly opcode, a triplet of DNA bases coding for an amino acid, and arguably a bee's waggle dance all exhibit the same convention-bound signification logic, a cross-substrate pattern Deacon (1997) traces from cellular semiosis through animal communication to human symbolic competence.
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