Tentatively qualifying the process
Tentatively qualifying the process

Summary/Abstract: Co-participatory mediation of signs and their respective others and their makers and takers in the creation of meaning reaches a rapid-fire pitch in this chapter. If indeed all that is, is interconnectedly processual, and if everything interdependently interactive with everything else, then it is, complementarily coalescent. Complementarity, in light of Niels Bohr’s interpretation of quantum theory, allows for ambiguity and multiple perspectives that, when considered in terms of possibilities, reveal vagueness and ambiguity – which is also the implication of Peirce’s concept of the sign. The Peircean processual flow of sign-making and -taking as complementary coalescence is illustrated by way of split-second decision-making in sports, when athletes – the examples are chiefly from baseball and soccer – have no time to think and then act on their thinking. Their decisions must be made in the blink of an eye, and they must be spontaneously acted on. This involves semiotic transition from feeling to sensing to interpreting all in one fell swoop. Unfortunately, the process is customarily considered as though it were product, not process.

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