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Ecosemiotics and biosemiotics: a comparative study

Language and Semiotic Studies, 2022
Ecological semiotics belongs to the field of culture, and biological semiotics refers to biology. There are both similarities and differences between ecological semiotics (ecosemiotics) and biological semiotics (biosemiotics).
Tian Haiqing, Wang Yongxiang
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Biosemiotics and Peirce

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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Construing Complex Referentiality in Interspecies Interaction: Embodiment and Biosemiotics. [PDF]

Animals (Basel)
Simple Summary Humans are known to speak to animals. In this study, we wanted to find out how children use language when talking to cats and dogs.
Peltola R, Grandgeorge M.
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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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Emergence of Organisms [PDF]

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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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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Information Entropy in Chimera States of Human Dynamics [PDF]

Entropy
In human dynamics, functioning relies on intricate coordination patterns. Networks of synchronized oscillators in various biological and semiotic fields shape these dynamics.
Franco Orsucci, Giovanna Zimatore
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Editorial: Biopsychosocial complexity research [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
Christian Schubert, William Sulis, Alejandro De La Torre-Luque, Günter K. Schiepek   +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 Sharov
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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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