Alternative Worlds' Dynamics: Mythic-semiotic Focus
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https://doi.org/10.28925/2412-2491.2025.257Keywords:
world, alternative world, logic, structure, myth, attractor, semiosisAbstract
The article discusses universal systemic premises of alternative worlds' modeling. The paper focuses on the pre-conceptual stage of generating logical realities of diverse modalities. Special attention is paid to the model of attractors that represents irrational pragmatic stimuli that determine the verbal practices of generating semiotic-discursive construals known as alternative worlds. The paper outlines basic variants of a world's transformation as open systems' transitions.
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