Sep 5, 2024 4:00 PM
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Creativity, Joint Attention and Beauty in the Animal Kingdom

Creativity, Joint Attention and Beauty in the Animal Kingdom

Panel:
[PA] How Do We Exist With Our Signs... On the Epistemological Foundations of Semiotics (Eero Tarasti)
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Speaker:
Bianca Suárez-Puerta
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
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Language is not just a human specialization; its genetic expression is also related to motor capacity for joint attention, creativity, and intersubjective intelligence. Genetic factors for motor and communication skills are not exclusive to humans; other animals also demonstrate symbolic thinking, encoding, translation, reference, anticipation, and perception. Furthermore, they are capable of forming and maintaining various bonds, indicating the existence of biosemiotic processes. The meaning processes mentioned can take place within the intricate structures of cells and at the molecular level. These processes involve the transmission of signals that carry crucial information essential for the organism's survival, reproduction, and defense mechanisms. The ability of living systems to organize signs arbitrarily allows for choice, creativity, and the generation of new meanings and symbols. Organisms must balance novelty and forgetting to survive, interpreting meanings for survival while being open to novelty. The ability of non-human organisms to create novelty through biological processes is crucial for their adaptation and evolution. To recognize beauty in non-human systems, we need to consider criteria or standards and understand how our human perception influences the interpretation of these expressions. Do animal behaviours express creativity, or are they simply instinctively preprogrammed? Exploring creativity, beauty, and art in non-human systems challenges our anthropocentric conceptions and opens new perspectives on the diversity of life on Earth.

Location:
1.120 room, WLS (Dobra 55 street)

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02
September
9:30
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10:30
Location:
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
Congress events
Opening Ceremony

September 2, 2024
Congress events
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
02
September
10:30
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11:30
Location:
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
From Signs of Language to Semioses of Life: Paradigms and Turns in Global Semiotics

September 2, 2024
Mickiewicz Hall, Auditorium Maximum (Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28 str.)
02
September
11:30
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12:15
Location:
Australia Hall, WLS (Dobra 55 street)
Catering
Coffee break [catering]

September 2, 2024
Catering
Australia Hall, WLS (Dobra 55 street)
Bianca Suárez-Puerta