The problem of relevance, at individual agent scale – or how we decide what is adequate for our interpretation of the signs we encounter in the world – is a question that keeps reappearing in semiotics and other disciplines concerned with meaning. In this article I propose an approximation on relevance that conceives meaning as a trajectory across a cognitive landscape. Unlike conventional accounts on relevance, which presuppose mental processes built on feature-based representations, my proposal suggests conceiving cognition as a fluid and emergent field of attractors basins that become specified and modified when experiences appear, and conceiving meaning as a trajectory across the cognitive field. Consequently, I suggest that when cognitive landscapes better fit world experience, agents’ categorizations will be more relevant. My proposal is mainly supported by two approaches: the enactivist notion of structural coupling and the theories of dynamic neural populations of Walter Freeman III.

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思维导图：认知领域中的概括和相关性

在个体代理人范围内的相关性问题，或者我们如何决定什么才足以解释我们在世界上遇到的标志，是一个在符号学和其他与意义相关的学科中不断出现的问题。在本文中，我提出了相关性的近似方法，将意义视为跨越认知领域的轨迹。与以相关性为前提的传统说明不同，后者以基于特征的表征为基础的心理过程为前提，我的建议建议将认知视为吸引盆地的流动和新兴领域，当经历出现时，这些盆地会被指定和修改，并将含义视为跨越认知领域的轨迹。因此，我建议，当认知环境更适合世界经验时，代理商的分类将更相关。