(January 14, 2019 at 12:15 am)Belaqua Wrote:(January 13, 2019 at 11:13 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: No, a computer is not a semiotic system, because it has its code imposed from without.
I guess I don't understand what you mean by the term, then. Semiotics is just the study of signs and meaning. A semiotic system would be, I thought, a system with signs and meanings. Whether this was self-made or not. But if there's a special sense involved here, I'm willing to go with it.
You are right. My apologies for my mistake. I believe that only in biosemiotics is the code linking signs and meanings created within the organism, but even then I am going by what I just read. Several of the concepts are new to me, so I will no doubt have to read more to understand them properly.
That's why I am looking forward to your own interpretations of the book.
