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Biosemiotics: a new understanding of life

open access: yesDie Naturwissenschaften, 2008
Biosemiotics is the idea that life is based on semiosis, i.e., on signs and codes. This idea has been strongly suggested by the discovery of the genetic code, but so far it has made little impact in the scientific world and is largely regarded as a philosophy rather than a science.
Marcello Barbieri
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Biosemiotics and Bioluminescence

Chinese Semiotic Studies, 2014
Abstract Biosemiotics holds that all forms of life are capable of interpretation. Regardless of the complexity of the inner world of the organism there is always found some rudimentary negotiation of code duality or the presence of incompatible codes, which necessitates a sort of ‘translation’ of those codes into meaningful action.
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Biosemiotic Questions

Biosemiotics, 2008
This paper examines the biosemiotic approach to the study of life processes by fashioning a series of questions that any worthwhile semiotic study of life should ask. These questions can be understood simultaneously as: (1) questions that distinguish a semiotic biology from a non-semiotic (i.e., reductionist–physicalist) one; (2) questions that any ...
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Introduction to Biosemiotics

2015
This chapter provides an introductory overview of biosemiotics—the study of meaning-making mechanisms in the living world. Biosemiotics is a study of those types of sign processes that are not based on human language. We describe history of the field both before 1960 (focussing particularly on the work of Jakob von Uexkull), and after this date (in the
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