This video explores the nature of perception as a resonance phenomenon. As put forward by such thinkers as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, as well as Brian Massumi and others. Within the post-semiotics of Guattari, content and expression can be delimited only as a reciprocal presupposition, where although designated as different, content and expression only exist as oppositions to each other. Paul Churchland's 'Semantic State Space' is a model for asygnifing semiotics based on Feed forward neural networks and interpreting distributed representations

The electromagnetic resonation in the visible frequencies are transcoded through the black hole of the eye. The lens bends the waves into electro-chemicals of the rods and cones. The chemical reaction produces a signal, captured through a multi-layered neural net, filtering the signals into trajectories within a larger network of the visual cortex. The process is further transcoded into the semiotic state space, a virtual relational territory defined by it's own past history and immediate responses. Felix Guattari has defined subjectivity as a resonance phenomenon.

The complex dynamic expressions of the neural network of the cerebral cortex is the sensitivity displayed by complex adaptive systems operating at or near chaos. The many subharmonics of brain activity is largely unconscious. Only a small percentage of the neural light show breaks the threshold into consciousness. A thought, a sensation, a feeling is brought into sharp relief until it merges back into the background noise. The actual dynamic core of our perception is a distributed representation:an aggregate of molecular activities. The distributed representation of neural networks is one of the strongest arguments for an asygnifying semiotics.

The model works like this: there are many neural activation patterns that constantly light up the cerebral cortex. Most of these patterns are subconscious operating below our conscious recognition. Only a small percentage of this becomes a thought or perception through the rich harmonics of neural activation patterns creating the background from which our sense of self emerges. Guattari sees this process as basically pre-linguistic. The mechanisms at work operate in many other domains other than language. In this sense, language becomes a kind of cognitive mapping of activation territories, a rythm.

"The face itself is redundancy. It is itself in redundancy with the redundancies of significance or frequency, and those of resonance or subjectivity. The face constructs the wall that the signifier needs in order to bounce off of; it constitutes the wall of the signifier, the frame or screen."
pg. 168 Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari 'A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia'