The meaning that inevitably nothing means anything. Semiotics is basically split into three areas which are signified, signifier and sign. The 'DOG' example is the most commonly used to explain this theory. The signifier meaning something that stands for something else. Signified meaning the idea of the thing it stands for and sign being the union of the two.
This theory is automatically done be humans and is what gives us different languages but essentially all with the same meaning. This is an interesting matter because it allows us to question life itself. If nothing means anything, is this study even relevant? Is each individual an individual only by thoughts but underneath we are all programmed the same. We could even be compared to a robot.
Could semiotics be the reason why humans are more advanced than animals. It may well be that our thought process is more complex and at a higher level than any other species on the planet.
This may be the reason why people can go insane. Maybe they have questioned life to a point where they no longer see the point in it and cause them to go mentally insane.
'Today is the tomorrow you were promised yesterday.' (Victor Burgen)
Howells (2003, Pg. 95)
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