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Introducing Biosemiotic Ethics

open access: yesZeitschrift für Semiotik, 2018
In this introduction to the special issue on Biosemiotic Ethics, we introduce major concepts and themes corresponding to the topic. With reference to Ivar Puura’s notion of “semiocide”, we ask: what are the ethical responsibilities that attention to semiotics carries?
Morten Tønnessen   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Should there be biomolecular pragmatics?

open access: yesСлово.ру: балтийский акцент
This article demonstrates that the concept proposed by Alexander Spirov reflects the ongoing paradigm shift and inspires new approaches in biosemiotics and semiotic pragmatics.
Suren T. Zolyan
doaj   +1 more source

Internet memes as internet signs: A semiotic view of digital culture

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2016
This article argues for a clearer framework of internet-based “memes”. The science of memes, dubbed ‘memetics’, presumes that memes remain “copying units” following the popularisation of the concept in Richard Dawkins’ celebrated work, The Selfish Gene ...
Sara Cannizzaro
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A semiotic analysis of the genetic information [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Terms loaded with informational connotations are often employed to refer to genes and their dynamics. Indeed, genes are usually perceived by biologists as basically ‘the carriers of hereditary information.’ Nevertheless, a number of researchers consider ...
El-Hani, Charbel   +2 more
core  

Topological Aspects of Biosemiotics

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2008
According to recent work of Bounias and Bonaly (2000), there is a close relationship between the conceptualization of biological life and mathematical conceptualization such that both of them co-depend on each other when discussing preliminary conditions
Rainer E. Zimmermann
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From theory to practice: The pragmatic value of applying systems thinking and complexity sciences in healthcare

open access: yes
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 149-152, March 2024.
Joachim P. Sturmberg, Carmel M. Martin
wiley   +1 more source

Bio-communication of Plants [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Plants communicate with a great variety of symbiotic partners, above and below ground. Constant monitoring of signals of biotic origin as well as abiotic environmental influences allows plants to generate appropriate response behavior.
Guenther Witzany
core   +1 more source

Human mental abstraction specificity emergence under distributed communicative pressure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
It is argued in the paper that human species’ socially distributed cognition is an extension to their biologically distributed cognition both being inseparable from distributed communicative ...
Abieva, N. A.
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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment edited by Louise Westling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Randy Lee Cutler reviews The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment, edited by Louise ...
Cutler, Randy Lee
core   +1 more source

Making the Animals on the Plate Visible: Anglophone Celebrity Chef Cookbooks Ranked by Sentient Animal Deaths [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Recent decades have witnessed the rise of chefs to a position of cultural prominence. This rise has coincided with increased consciousness of ethical issues pertaining to food, particularly as they concern animals.
Lamey, Andy, Sharpless, Ike
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