The human being is not a floating signifier

Journals

Title：
The human being is not a floating signifier
Author：
Paul C. Mocombe
Author Affiliation：
West Virginia State University, West Virginia, USA
Received：Apr.13, 2023
Accepted：May.5, 2023
Published：May.16, 2023

Abstract

This work argues, against postmodern and post structural theories, that the human being is not a floating signifier; instead, they are constituted as preprogrammed beings based on three structuring structures and the ability to defer meaning in ego-centered communicative discourse. In other words, the human being is a product of their mental stance arising from conflict, or not, between four structuring structures: 1) praxis associated with the phenomenal properties, i.e., qualia, of subatomic particles; 2) the anatomy and physiology of the body; 3) structural reproduction and differentiation; and 4) structural actions driven by the deferment of meaning in ego-centered communicative discourse. It is the mental stance of human beings in relation to these four structuring structures, which determine their being and actions in the material world.

Keywords

Structurationism, praxis, panpsychism, social class language game, phenomenological structuralism, orchor theory, univon multiverse hypothesis, free-will, determinism, haitian epistemology, consciousness field theory, Conscious Electromagnetic Information Theory (CEMI).

Doi

https://doi.org/10.58396/asd020101

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