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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.
Tony Jappy
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Fictionalism of Anticipation. [PDF]
Biosemiotics, 2021 A promising recent approach for understanding complex phenomena is recognition of anticipatory behavior of living organisms and social organizations. The anticipatory, predictive action permits learning, novelty seeking, rich experiential existence.
Vidunas R.
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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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DISCUSSION OF THE CONCEPTUAL BASIS OF BIOSEMIOTICS
Zygon, 2010 Kalevi Kull and colleagues recently proposed eight theses as a conceptual basis for the field of biosemiotics. We use these theses as a framework for discussing important current areas of debate in biosemiotics with particular reference to the articles ...
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Editorial: Biopsychosocial complexity research [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 Christian Schubert +3 more
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Functional Information: Towards Synthesis of Biosemiotics and Cybernetics
Entropy, 2010 Biosemiotics and cybernetics are closely related, yet they are separated by the boundary between life and non-life: biosemiotics is focused on living organisms, whereas cybernetics is applied mostly to non-living artificial devices. However, both classes
Alexei A Sharov
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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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The Biosemiotic Approach in Biology : Theoretical Bases and Applied Models [PDF]
, 2011 Biosemiotics is a growing fi eld that investigates semiotic processes in the living realm in an attempt to combine the fi ndings of the biological sciences and semiotics. Semiotic processes are more or less what biologists have typically referred to as “
El-Hani, Charbel +3 more
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