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On the Fundamentality of Meaning [PDF]

, 2018
The mainstream view of meaning is that it is emergent, not fundamental, but some have disputed this, asserting that there is a more fundamental level of reality than that addressed by current physical theories, and that matter and meaning are in some way
Josephson, Brian D.
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Natural, un-natural and detached mimicry [PDF]

, 2019
Natural mimicry is ubiquitous. Plants mimic animals, animals mimic plants, animals mimic each other and animals may even mimic counterfactual states that deceive or distract other animals.
Pickering, John
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Maize and semiotic emergence in a contemporary Maya Tale: Tec Tun's, U tsikbalo’ob XNuk Nal [Tales of Old Mother Corn]

Tapuya, 2019
This article discusses a contemporary Maya story about the relationship between humanity and maize in the Yucatan Peninsula: José Manuel Tec Tun's, U tsikbalo’ob XNuk Nal / Los cuentos de la Abuela Mazorca [Tales of Old Mother Corn].
Charles Maurice Pigott
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Biosemiotics and ecological monitoring

Sign Systems Studies, 2001
During the recent decades, a global culrural-institutional network has gradually grown lip to project, implement, and use an enormous technological web that is supposed to observe, monitor, communicate, inventory, and assess our environment and its ...
Luis Emilio Bruni
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Neighbourhoodies: courageous community, colours, blazing bling and defiant delight [PDF]

, 2010
As we see a global culture appear across the planet identity politics simultaneously gravitate towards issues of the local. In society’s top strata people strive to live in posh areas with the right postal code. Subversive counterculture activists try to
von Busch, Otto
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Nonveridical biosemiotics and the Interface Theory of Perception: implications for perception-mediated selection

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Recently, the relationship between evolutionary ecology and perceptual science has received renewed attention under perception-mediated selection, a mode of natural selection linking perceptual saliency, rather than veridicality, to fitness.
Brian Khumalo, Y. Hendlin
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What Connects Biolinguistics and Biosemiotics?

Biolinguistics, 2013
This paper reviews the background, fundamental questions, current issues, and goals of the intellectual movements initiated by Noam Chomsky’s biolinguistics and Thomas A. Sebeok’s (1920-2001) biosemiotics.
Prisca Augustyn
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Tractatus Hoffmeyerensis: Biosemiotics as expressed in 22 basic hypotheses

Sign Systems Studies, 2002
This paper briefly outlines the main ideas of biosemiotics in 22 hypotheses, with special regards to the version of it claimed by Jesper Hoffmeyer.
Frederik Stjernfelt
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An Informational Study of the Evolution of Codes in Different Population Structures [PDF]

, 2014
Best Student Paper Award. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United StatesWe consider the problem of the evolution of a code within a structured population of agents.
Burgos, Andrés, Polani, D.
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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 A. Sharov
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