Danger Modeling: Meaning-generation in Three Dimensions [Slides from the presentation] In the struggle for existence, any known species of organisms must avert danger to ensure survival. To do that, they need to identify—or model—it in ways that are specific to their species and actualized in concrete situations. This is an act of generating meaning that…

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Refining how the term ‘Icon’ is conceived as a Step towards Nomothetic Descriptions of Behavioral-Ecological Events The term icon is ubiquitous. For example, in linguistics iconicity is conceived as the relationship between speech acts and meaning whereas in semiotics broadly, iconicity is conceived as a grounded relationship between an icon and its referent. While these…

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