ABSTRACT

This chapter examines the creation of dynamic patterns and the process of linkage in memory. One can see that words or "signs" alone are not sufficient indication of meaning. Only when they combine to form dynamic patterns or sentences do they acquire precision and the capacity to reveal meaning. Only then do they acquire the attributes to guide us more or less faithfully on the path to interpretation. One can recall that in the Saussurean linguistics, the sign represents a relation between signifier and signified, the signifier representing language in its acoustic form and the signified referring to the corresponding perceptual data. A further clarification is needed because the word "signs" has another application, namely to designate perceptual data from the visible universe that do not, initially, contain signifiers in the Saussurean sense. The outside reality at one and the same moment in time is one; yet its meaning varies according to the individual's perspective.