Chapter 5: Universal forms of the reproductivity of intellect
Chapter 5: Universal forms of the reproductivity of intellect

Summary/Abstract: 5.1. Terminological classification of reproductivity The analysis of the forms of reproductivity proceeds from the tradition of the culture-typological analysis of the Juri Lotman and Tartu–Moscow semiotic school, and attempts to reconstruct, and also to augment the ideas sketched, but not fully developed, by Lotman in his “Lectures” on the system of semiotic algorithms of the intellect. Many concepts that Lotman used implicitly in his “Lectures” did not receive an explicit form until much later. This pertains primarily to the concept of the intellect. Let us look again at the three universal basic operations of the intellect, which are the ability: firstly, to collect and mediate information (the intellect possesses communicative and memory mechanisms). It has language skills and is able to form correct sentences; secondly, to carry out algorithmic operations for the regular transformation of these messages; thirdly, to form new messages. (Lotman 1978: 3)

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