On the Comparison of Symbols

Every system of symbols, and every semi-symbolic system, presents a number of layers which structure its functioning. If symbolic systems are characterised by a form of conformity that creates correspondences between units of expression and units of meaning (content), and semi-symbolic systems present this structure of conformity on the level of categories rather than on that of units, semiotic systems are characterised by a non-conformity which appears enigmatic if a system of analysis is not defined. The first two micro and macro cosmoi of signification offer, on the other hand, appropriate material for a system of comparison and its testing. Natural languages are, in a sense, audiovisual systems, and the concept of symbolic and semi-symbolic systems is not restricted //here// to spoken or written language, but goes, rather, in the direction of systems of notation and other logic apparatuses. Any existing set of symbols structured into a logic system presents a number of constant characteristics, so to say discrete signs, syntax, grammar, and the procedural production of meaning. The main idea behind this study is to identify a number of recurring (hidden) patterns which constitute the executive functioning of the selected semantic world. This dynamic material is producing a structure that, rather than constituting an absolute form of truth, becomes a procedural layout – or a UML (Unified Modelling Language) graph of dynamic states - able to implement new software functions and routines which can constitute the base for a model of electronic though and the production of new knowledge and machinic wisdom.