Edelman (1992: 101):
As important as the basic triad of perception, memory, and learning is, however, their functioning together cannot generate the kinds of capabilities that connect perceptual categorisations together to yield general relational properties. These properties emerge from the acquisition of conceptual capabilities — the ability to categorise in terms of general or abstract relations.
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To be clear, Edelman's notion of 'conceptual capabilities' refers to the ability of the brain to categorise its own activities, particularly those of perceptual categorisation.
From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, this is the ability to organise isolated symbolic Token-Value pairs into paradigmatic systems.
In the case of perceptual categorisation, the isolated Token-Value pairs are those of sensorimotor activities (Token) and perceptual categorisations (Value), and the paradigmatic system that develops through these 'conceptual capabilities' is a somatic semiotic system: the perceptual meaning potential of an organism.
In the case of social semiotic systems, the isolated Token-Value pairs are signs: pairs of expression (Token) and content (Value), and the paradigmatic system that first develops through these 'conceptual capabilities' is the meaning potential of protolanguage, as occurs in other socio-semiotic species, and in the early stages of language development in humans, as theorised by Halliday.
From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, this is the ability to organise isolated symbolic Token-Value pairs into paradigmatic systems.
In the case of perceptual categorisation, the isolated Token-Value pairs are those of sensorimotor activities (Token) and perceptual categorisations (Value), and the paradigmatic system that develops through these 'conceptual capabilities' is a somatic semiotic system: the perceptual meaning potential of an organism.
In the case of social semiotic systems, the isolated Token-Value pairs are signs: pairs of expression (Token) and content (Value), and the paradigmatic system that first develops through these 'conceptual capabilities' is the meaning potential of protolanguage, as occurs in other socio-semiotic species, and in the early stages of language development in humans, as theorised by Halliday.
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