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Human mental abstraction specificity emergence under distributed communicative pressure [PDF]
, 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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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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Introducing Biosemiotic Ethics
Zeitschrift 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
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Should there be biomolecular pragmatics?
Слово.ру: балтийский акцентThis 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
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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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Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 149-152, March 2024.
Joachim P. Sturmberg, Carmel M. Martin
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Making the Animals on the Plate Visible: Anglophone Celebrity Chef Cookbooks Ranked by Sentient Animal Deaths [PDF]
, 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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Privileging exploratory hands: prehension, apprehension, comprehension [PDF]
, 2013 Through our hands we construct our world and through our construction of our world we construct ourselves. We reach with our hands and touch with our hands, and with this reaching and touching we come to understand how things feel and are.
Stuart, S.A.J.
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A Unifying Theory of Biological Function [PDF]
, 2017 A new theory that naturalizes biological function is explained and compared with earlier etiological and causal role theories. Etiological theories explain functions from how they are caused over their evolutionary history.
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The New Genetics and Natural versus Artificial Genetic Modification
Entropy, 2013 The original rationale and impetus for artificial genetic modification was the “central dogma” of molecular biology that assumed DNA carries all the instructions for making an organism, which are transmitted via RNA to protein to biological function in ...
Mae-Wan Ho
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