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Entropy, 2009 In this paper evidence is provided that individual neurons possess language, and that the basic unit for communication consists of two neurons and their entire field of interacting dendritic and synaptic connections.
Morris H. Baslow
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From cause and effect to causes and effects
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 296-308, March 2024.Abstract It is now—at least loosely—acknowledged that most health and clinical outcomes are influenced by different interacting causes. Surprisingly, medical research studies are nearly universally designed to study—usually in a binary way—the effect of a single cause.
Joachim P. Sturmberg, James A. Marcum
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Humanities, 2022 Yamen Manaï’s novel Bel Abîme upholds Dominique Lestel’s contention that friends are those who we hold near and dear in our hybrid communities. Lestel and Manaï’s reexamination of the reality of other-than-human friendship presents our domesticated pets ...
Keith Moser
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Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, 2022 One way to understand the basic semiotic relation is that a sign-vehicle signifies an object to an interpretant. Biosemioticians sometimes talk about this relationship in terms of “codes”. When thinking about this relationship in the context of language, a natural move is to conceptualize semiotic relationships among speakers, meanings, and utterances ...
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Internet memes as internet signs: A semiotic view of digital culture
Sign 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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Topological Aspects of Biosemiotics
tripleC: 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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Bohrův rámec komplementarity v biosémiotice
, 2017 This paper analyses Bohr’s complementarity framework and applies it to biosemiotic studies by illustrating its application to three existing models of living systems: mechanistic (molecular) biology, Barbieri’s version of biosemiotics in terms of his ...
Filip Grygar, Grygar, Filip
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Biosemiotics and ecolinguistics: two tales of scientific objectification
Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio, 2021 With the purpose of establishing life-mind-language continuity, the paper thematizes an important phenomenon missing from Maturana’s (1988) theory of languaging: the generative basis of second order consensual coordination. While Maturana suggests that coordination involving biological information is qualitatively different from coordination involving ...
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A biosemiotic interpretation of certain genital morphological structures in the spiders Dysdera erythrina and Dysdera crocata (Araneae: Dysderidae). [PDF]
Theory Biosci, 2023 Schult J +3 more
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Biosemiotic Entropy: Concluding the Series [PDF]
Entropy, 2014 This article concludes the special issue on Biosemiotic Entropy looking toward the future on the basis of current and prior results. It highlights certain aspects of the series, concerning factors that damage and degenerate biosignaling systems. As in ordinary linguistic discourse, well-formedness (coherence) in biological signaling systems depends on
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