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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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Meaning or presence? Ways of knowing of the Sámi yoik
American Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 4, Page 855-865, December 2022., 2022 Abstract This article approaches an Indigenous singing tradition, the yoik, practiced by the Sámi people in the north of Europe, as a way of knowing the environment through presence rather than meaning. The yoik consists of short unaccompanied melodies, often without lyrics, sung in everyday life, associated with a specific being (typically a person ...
Stéphane Aubinet
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Michel Serres, ‘a legend for us to read our world,’ or just a geographer?
Geography Compass, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022 Abstract In pondering the purpose and relevance of the thought of the French philosopher, Michel Serres, this article surveys recent secondary literature about his works in geography, social science, literary and humanities subjects. Where they are thought to be helpful, the article includes some biographical details.
Emily Hayes
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 38, Issue 6, Page 923-939, November/December 2021., 2021 We elaborate Alfred Schutz's theory of musical communication empirically. Our technique for analysing musical communication aligns Schutz's sociological theory with the mathematics of anticipatory systems. Music, we argue, can be considered as an anticipatory system that articulates through its diachronic unfolding, fundamental symmetries which can be ...
Mark William Johnson, Loet Leydesdorff
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Still minding the gap? Reflecting on transitions between concepts of information in varied domains [PDF]
, 2020 This conceptual paper, a contribution to the tenth anniversary special issue of information, gives a cross-disciplinary review of general and unified theories of information.
Bawden, D., Robinson, L.
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A Systematic Investigation of Gesture Kinematics in Evolving Manual Languages in the Lab
Cognitive Science, Volume 45, Issue 7, July 2021., 2021 Abstract Silent gestures consist of complex multi‐articulatory movements but are now primarily studied through categorical coding of the referential gesture content. The relation of categorical linguistic content with continuous kinematics is therefore poorly understood. Here, we reanalyzed the video data from a gestural evolution experiment (Motamedi,
Wim Pouw +3 more
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, 2023 Approaches to Biosemiotics is the first issue in the Biosocial World collection, and contains a series of articles on what biosemiotics does, how it does it and what its long-term objectives may be. As a more specialized discipline in the boundaries of linguistics, the biosociology, the philosophy of biology and the sciences, we hope to offer a point ...
Romay Coca, Juán +1 more
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Distributed Perception: Co‐Operation between Sense‐Able, Actionable, and Accountable Semiotic Agents
Symbolic Interaction, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 134-162, February 2021., 2021 Perception is not just a cognitive, private experience, but achieved in and through interactive and practical actions in co‐operation with other semiotic agents. This article contributes to work on multisensory perception that is distributed as an interactional phenomenon between agents.
Brian L. Due
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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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Sign Systems Studies, 2019 The article discus ses some semiotic approaches to the relation between nature and culture. Starting with outlining the structuralistic approach to this issue, especially the ideas of Juri Lotman and Algirdas Julien Greimas, the author finds parallels ...
Katarzyna Machtyl
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