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Language and Semiotic Studies, 2023 Peirce’s final statements on the sign were consigned in various ways over a hundred years ago as a form of logic, a branch of the science of enquiry based upon observation.
Jappy Tony
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Entropy, 2020 Since early cybernetics studies by Wiener, Pask, and Ashby, the properties of living systems are subject to deep investigations. The goals of this endeavour are both understanding and building: abstract models and general principles are sought for ...
Andrea Roli, Stuart A. Kauffman
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Sign Systems Studies, 2002 Pragmatics, i.e., a system of values (or goals) in agent behavior, marks the boundary between physics and semiotics. Agents are defined as systems that are able to control their behavior in order to increase their values. The freedom of actions in agents
Alexei A. Sharov
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Complexity and biosemiotics in evolutionary ecology of zoonotic infectious agents. [PDF]
Evol Appl, 2018 Abstract More is not automatically better. Generation and accumulation of information reflecting the complexity of zoonotic diseases as ecological systems do not necessarily lead to improved interpretation of the obtained information and understanding of these complex systems.
Kosoy M, Kosoy R.
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Editorial: Biopsychosocial complexity research [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 Christian Schubert +3 more
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Sign, function and life: Thinking epistemologically about biosemiotics
Sign Systems Studies, 2022 This article focuses on an epistemological analysis, Bachelardian and Saussurean, of the problematics of biosemiotics. This discipline is first characterized in its general features, and in contrast with biolinguistics – a characterization that allows ...
Anne-Gaëlle Toutain
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The term ‘Biosemiotik’ in the 19th century
Sign Systems Studies, 2022 Tracing the emergence of biosemiotics, attention can be drawn to the very early usage of the term ‘biosemiotics’ (Biosemiotik) in the writings of Austrian chemist Vincenz Kletzinsky (1826–1882) that dates back to the 1850s.
Kalevi Kull
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Viruses as archaeological tools for uncovering ancient molecular relationships
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1529, Issue 1, Page 3-13, November 2023., 2023 The entry of a virus into the host cell always implies the alteration of certain intracellular molecular relationships, some of which may involve the recovery of ancient cellular activities. In this sense, viruses can be used as archaeological tools for identifying unexpressed activities in non‐infected cells.
Ascensión Ariza‐Mateos +5 more
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OBJECT‐ORIENTED ONTOLOGY AND THE OTHER OF WE IN ANTHROPOCENTRIC POSTHUMANISM
Zygon®, Volume 58, Issue 2, Page 315-339, June 2023., 2023 Abstract The object‐oriented ontology group of philosophies, and certain strands of posthumanism, overlook important ethical and biological differences, which make a difference. These allied intellectual movements, which have at times found broad popular appeal, attempt to weird life as a rebellion to the forced melting of lifeforms through the ...
Yogi Hale Hendlin
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 691-706, December 2022., 2022 This article discusses the introductory remarks to this special issue by Mattias Brand, as well as the two articles written by the Mattias Brand and Gerard Wiegers, respectively. It includes my own reflections in the commentary on the three contributions.
Volkhard Krech
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