“we live in a world that has been
vastly altered by our cognitive abilities such that we inhabit not only the
empirical world of physical entities but also the world of sign systems, which
are a direct result of our cumulative interactions with the world (and each
other) over time. Thus, the relationship between the subject and the object is
dealt in a pragmatic way, where external phenomena are experienced as signs
that are meaningful to the organism and there is no separation of the two.”
(p144)
Annotation
The
experience of an empirical authentic
relationship within an environment between the person and the objects in that
environment is mediated by the inauthentic
semiotics of what
those same objects afford to the person as to how they can be used. O’Neill
argues that there is no separation between the modes of a meaningful existence, “Because we perceive before we conceive, we
find that the body is at the root of our conceptual apparatus as well as being
able to engage with the world without having to think about it” (p158). As
the human is an essential organism in the environment and not distinct from the
environment. Seen in a pragmatic
way, the semiotic signs
from the objects in the environment communicates meanings that lead to action that impacts on the
nature of the same environment.
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