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From: rwood@erg.i-kinetics.com (Richard Wood)
Subject: Re: Semiotics
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> In trying to recast my understanding in terms meaningful to the semiotic 
> community, I've come to a conclusion that communication as understood by 
> neuroscientists has perhaps five or six aspects:
> 1. The object or action communicated about,
> 2. The process used to produce the signal,
> 3. The produced signal,
> 4. The perceived signal,
> 5. The meaning associated with the signal in the producer's brain, and
> 6. The meaning induced in the receiver's brain by receipt of the signal.

Have you read "Descartes' Error" by Dr. Antonio Damasio?
Although he doesn't focus on communication (note, I haven't
finished the book), I bet he'd agree with the spirit of your
outline here.  He would agree that meaning is emotional; as he
puts it, rationality has its basis in emotion.

Rick Wood

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