Tags:granular semiotics, ontological quanta, quantum semiotics, Rieger and Zadeh
Abstract:
A granular semiotics originating from L. Zadeh and independently from B. Rieger is interpreted in terms of quantum complementarity: It can be also obtained from the classical Saussure scheme if the signified and the signifier are complementary to each other. Consequently, the “twins” of language and reality are merged into a single ontology of quanta, which can be interpreted complementarily either as “words” (i.e. units of meanings in the language) or as “things” (i.e. units of reality).
Furthermore that granular semiotics can be formalized by the standard formalism of quantum mechanics and information in Hilbert spaces whether non-entangled (and thus equivalent to a single one) or entangled.
The language in terms of ontological quanta abandons and darkens absolutely all dividing human beings. They might be called invariant to the different intellect and experience of the humans. The linguistic “atoms” are able to concentrate only on a few unifying features of reality as their meaning. Those linguistic units are live beings fed by consensus and therefore created to search for it and find its “deposits”. Consequently the language is a map of treasures of consensus elaborated by living linguistic “cells”. The ontological quanta are those “living words” fed by consensus creating the map of reality as the locations of its deposits.
The sense of any meaning consists in the optimal proportion between its unclearness and exactness. The existence of ontological quanta forces the picture to be granular in principle. The indivisibility of the ontological quanta is necessary and fruitful condition for them to behavior as living searching for deposits of consensus. The ontological quanta are bigger, the picture is grainier, but the attraction between the quanta is stronger and the deposits of consensus are more visible. They are living and moving thus re-outlining new deposits of consensus, i.e. new meanings.