2022 Vol. 13 №2

“Noise” as a key to semiosis: the brain and culture (40 years later)

DOI

10.5922/2225-5346-2022-2-1

Pages

24-36

Abstract

The article explores the context important for the analysis of Lotman’s talk at the seminar on the problem of semiogenesis and functional specialization of cerebral hemispheres as a model of intellectual processes, which was held in Tartu. Forty years later, the author anal­yses changes in the viewpoints on the proposed model, taking into account the data of experi­mental neuroscience. The article emphasizes the fundamental value and topicality of Yuri Lotman’s ideas on the production of meaning in individual and cross-cultural space.

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