"Mind and Matter: Challenges and Opportunities in Cognitive Semiotics and Aesthetics" ed. by Asun López-Varela Azcárate

This volume is dedicated to neural networks, cellular entities, brains material reality, location of meaning-making, memory, reason, imagination, and sign-systems and simulation structures.

Do brains create material reality in thinking processes or is it the other way around, with things shaping the mind? Where is the location of meaning-making? How do neural networks become established by means of multimodal pattern replications, and how are they involved in conceptualization? How are resonance textures within cellular entities extended in the body and the mind by means of mirroring processes? In which ways do they correlate to consciousness and self-consciousness? Is it possible to explain out-of-awareness unconscious processes? What holds together the relationship between experiential reality, bodily processes like memory, reason, or imagination, and sign-systems and simulation structures like metaphor and metonymy visible in human language? This volume attempts to answer some of these questions.

Contents
1. Cognitive Semiotics: An Overview
2. Where Is Meaning? Mind, Matter and Meaning
3. Configuring a Concept - On Iteration and Infinity
4. A Biosemiotic Modeling of the Body-“Self” Synechism
5. The Embodied Nature of Horse Human Communication: A Feasibility Study of an Equine Assisted Intervention; Benefits for Horses and Humans
6. Rethinking ‘Affordance’, ‘Agency’ and ‘User’ from a Semiotic Technologies Perspective: The Emergence of a Typology of Signs-as-Agents
7. Onlife Drama: Towards a Reference Framework for Hyper-Connected Activity
8. Toddlers and Movies: A Fresh Approach
9. Images beyond Representation: Evidence and Depth of Meaning
10. Metaphoric Representation and Aesthetic in Advertising
11. Between Madness and Literature by Michel Foucault from a Philosophical Point of View of Language


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