The Phenomenon of Complexity and Quantum Semiotics

Abstract

The article is devoted to the discussion of some characteristic features of the  “complexity paradigm” (Moraine). It is emphasized that thinking in complexity needs an adequate conceptual optics, methodological support, which can be rep­resented by a conceptual assemblage – a heterogeneous perceptual and com­municative network of concepts of quantum mechanics and Peirce semiotics, considered ontogenetically in terms of processality, temporality, becoming.
The situation with thinking in complexity is such that this optics should arise as a certain set of cognitive operations as a certain topologically connected set of semiotically meaningful operations in the very process of realizing a cognitive situation as becoming specifically complex. And this awareness is a key prereq­uisite for the emergence of that epistemological situation, which we call “meet­ing with complexity”. Or, more precisely, thinking together with complexity. It is emphasized that the encounter with complexity itself implies the presence of a kind of sensitivity, an intuitive predisposition to its conscious recognition as such. We need such a conceptual character as the “observer of complexity”, un­derstood in the unity of the multiplicity of cybersemiotic, synergetic and quan­tum mechanical perspectives. A character who traces his ancestry from the quan­tum-relativistic physics of the twentieth century and the procedural philosophy of Pierce, Bergson and Whitehead.It is emphasized that in Peirce's scheme there is a specific, context-dependent relationship between signs and objects with which they are connected through the third element, an interpreter that plays the role of a connecting link between them" And this semiotic interpreter of Peirce is, in fact, a semiotic observer-a participant in the becoming turbulent flow of temporal complexity, synergistically included in the self-organizing quantum Universe.