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Constructive Semiosis Is the Core of the Human Psyche
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Human beings create signs in order to make it possible for themselves to make sense of the uncertainty of facing the future within irreversible time. The latter guarantees open-endedness of the human psyche through the unity of pre-constructive imagination and reconstructive memory processes. This unity of the past (memory) and future (imagination) is the universal basic process for all human beings. Culture is a meta-concept in universal human science providing room for various theoretical perspectives that are at the level of abstraction of other basic sciences.
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Semiosis Reconstructive memory Pre-constructive imagination Culture as meta-concept Irreversible timeCopyright information
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