Semiosis as a Complex Model

During the last sixty years, the theory of complex thinking has established links with several fields of human knowledge. When complexity and semiotics–a subject that studies the functioning of signs or semiosis–interrelate, it is possible to obtain results that provide semiosis with a greater objectivity. This work seeks mainly to evince part of this interrelation. Its aim focuses precisely on explaining semiosis as a complex biocultural process. Every cognitive phenomenon starts with the involvement of certain elements of a human subject’s biological sphere: their sensory capacities. The subject’s cultural competence will gradually “cover” this sphere. The whole process is marked by four intimately linked moments and models. We will also resort to some neuroscientific evidence to support our aim. Finally, we will present two results: the general model of semiosis and a functional definition of the latter.