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Semantic Space Structure
Modalities, intensities and their rigidity factors assigned in relation to a neutral point, describe objects in a semantic space. Modalities correlate with coordinate axes; angular coordinates are to be associated with intensities. An object can correspond to a vector characterized by direction (expressing a certain correlation of properties/characteristics), while rigidity is expressed in the length of this vector that determines the property correlation. The choice of angular measure for assigning property correlation is obvious: since addition of two identical objects is not supposed to change property correlation, but only increase degree of their rigidity (stability in a certain respect). Thus, only the vector direction (angular coordinate), including its length (rigidity) can definitely and completely assign an object in semantic space.
The description of any objects and conditions on a mental map is performed through their juxtaposition to a neutral point (origin of coordinates, relative to which all comparisons are made). Every subject and every mentality "standardizes" such a comparison in their own way. In this sense, a neutral point is a certain "zero" state of a subject, the absence of emotional tension caused by a requirement. Any deviation from such a neutral point means a deficit situation for a certain a property (requirement), which is initially experienced through interoceptive sensations. The stable exteroceptive ("external") conditions for property compensation are the object or a means of satisfying a given requirement within a specific subjective reality. It is the motivational vector of a specific subject that prescribes the "azimuth" toward "the ideal object" (effective behavior).
The inner“ tension of the subject of requirement is "taken outside" by the subject of evolution (requirement that seeks outside means for its satisfaction) and interpreted as an object by the subject of perception. Thus "outside" forces emerge in the object reality (as objectivization of the evolutionary requirement) that are a different form of subject tension. In essence, a means of composing inner tension is established. It does not depend on the subject of requirement, and that is why it is considered an objective one, containing all the properties of hat objectivity.
In this sense, we can only provide a semantic definition for part of the world, and herewith we describe it as a closed system. That is why any mental map is inadequate to the world and it is bounded, therefore, it can be described theoretically as a formal system between the moments of creativity.
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