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Affect as a Sign System

2003· article· en· W1965503439 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueNeuropsychoanalysis · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicAction Observation and Synchronization
Canadian institutionsColumbia College
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSemioticsAffect (linguistics)FeelingSign systemSign (mathematics)Cognitive psychologyPsychologyCognitive scienceComputer scienceSocial psychologyCommunicationEpistemologyMathematicsPhilosophy

Abstract

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This paper explores the idea that affects make up a semiotic system. After briefly presenting a version of modern semiotic theory—that of C. S. Pierce—the paper describes affects as sign systems of biological evaluation. Each of the major affects has a kind of vertical structure from brainstem to cortex and represents an analog evaluator in terms of one of the vectors important to survival. Each affect is a semiotic system in which there is a physiological bodily response, a display via the face and body, and a subjective awareness. The entire package leads to dispositions to approach or avoid and to have other evaluative subjective feelings. In nonhuman species, affects are represented by nonsymbolic signs. Humans have, in addition to the nonsymbolic, the symbolic capacity to name and speak about affects. The paper explores the advantages and possible functions of this capacity with respect to being aware of affects and finding evolutionary advantage in this awareness. Looking at this subject from the semiotic point of view allows us to shed light on: (1) the issue of the time course of an affect; (2) the concepts of drives and affects; (3) the three manifestations of affect and their dissociation; and (4) the different functions of the three types of signs with respect to affect.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.768
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.309
Teacher spread0.285 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it