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Memory in "man, proud man" makes up, as it were, a multisensory private documentary archive, severally composed of nonverbal signs with a verbal overlay. It is the articulatio secunda, or the syntactic aspect of language, which provides the machinery whereby memory organizes, continually remodels as a child playing with a tinkertoy, and finally imposes a coherent and personal narrative schema upon each of us. " This blueprint, too, is what Jacob envisioned when, in the concrete titular and key metaphor of his recent autobiography, he fantasized carrying within himself a kind of statue intérieure, "sculpted since childhood, that gives my life a continuity and is the most intimate part of me, the hardest kernel of my character.
Animals form an intermediate superphylum, mediating between the plants (which they consume) and the fungi (by which they are ultimately dissolved). Because of their pivotal position as message transformers, their communicative processes are the most elaborate. They are also much better studied. All animals, including ourselves, communicate by exchanging nonverbal signs. 5 million years ago. 5 million years ago, and soon by at least two subspecies, of which solely a descendant of our own kind, Homo sapiens (about 100,000 years ago), survives.
Previous page page_20 next page > Page 20 cycle, interpretants, both being kinds of signs, is a familiar one in philosophical tradition. This positionone that surely follows from Peirce's wistful, throwaway remark (1905) about something he took to be a fact, "that the entire universe . . is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs"is known as Idealism, and that of a particular hue, sometimes called "conceptual idealism," which maintains that our view of reality, namely, our Umwelt, entails an essential reference to mind (Gemüt) in its constitution.